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Tapachula weather

Chiapas · 353,706 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 10:53

Air: Fair High storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

20°

Clear sky

Feels like 25°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

4 km/h

Humidity

77 %

Pressure

1013 hPa

Clouds

2 %

Storm

Rise 06:03 Set 17:41 Day 11 h 37 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Morning

Clear sky

27°20°

Feels like 33°

Wind ↑ SSW 5 km/h

Humidity 63 %

Afternoon

Rain showers

29°28°

Feels like 38°

Wind ↑ WSW 8 km/h

Humidity 63 %

💧 1.0 mm

⚡ storm

Evening

Rain showers

26°22°

Feels like 36°

Wind ↑ NE 6 km/h

Humidity 85 %

💧 4.1 mm

⚡ storm

12:00

29°

0.1mm

SW 7

15:00

28°

0.9mm

WSW 8

Tapachula forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.9° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Tapachula climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 528 towns of 20,000+ people in Mexico, Tapachula has the highest yearly rainfall.

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 29 °C in October to 32 °C in April, and the coolest nights (January) average 19 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 2,790 mm of rain — more than 96% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The wet season is concentrated from August to October, which brings 50% of the annual total; September by itself averages 532 mm.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 30 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	19 °C	13 mm
Feb	31 °C	19 °C	11 mm
Mar	32 °C	21 °C	30 mm
Apr	32 °C	22 °C	79 mm
May	31 °C	22 °C	296 mm
Jun	30 °C	22 °C	414 mm
Jul	30 °C	21 °C	348 mm
Aug	30 °C	21 °C	402 mm
Sep	29 °C	21 °C	532 mm
Oct	29 °C	21 °C	461 mm
Nov	29 °C	20 °C	171 mm
Dec	30 °C	19 °C	31 mm
Whole year	30 °C	21 °C	2,790 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 14.91° N, 92.26° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Tapachula: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.518µg/m³

PM1024µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Tapachula

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Tapachula, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Tapachula yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Tapachula

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 20:51 Set 09:34

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Merida); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Tapachula

Curious about the weather in Tapachula on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Tapachula weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Tapachula, Chiapas: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 20 °C (feels like 25 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 20 °C to 29 °C and around 1 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Other big cities nearby

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Guatemala City 190 km 20°

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations