Compostela climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Compostela?

Compostela has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.0 °C and it receives 1,489 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Compostela?

The hottest day measured in Compostela between 1940 and 2025 was 17 April 1954, reaching 34.6 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Compostela?

The coldest day measured in Compostela between 1940 and 2025 was 2 January 2021, at 7.2 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Compostela?

Almost never: Compostela sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Compostela warmed?

Yes: Compostela warmed by +1.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Compostela?

The wettest day measured in Compostela between 1940 and 2025 was 15 July 1985, with 165 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Compostela?

The windiest day measured in Compostela between 1940 and 2025 was 25 October 2002, with winds reaching 29.6 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Compostela?

The warmest month in Compostela is June (24.1 °C on average); the coldest is January (19.0 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Compostela?

Compostela receives on average 1,489 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 143 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Compostela?

Compostela gets on average 10.3 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,760 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Compostela (Mexico) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 22.0 °C and it receives 1,489 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is June (24.1 °C on average) and the coldest is January (19.0 °C). Rainfall peaks in August.

Compostela averages 0 frost days, 37 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 143 rainy days per year.

Compostela has warmed by +1.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.16 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 34.6 °C (on 17 April 1954) and the coldest 7.2 °C (on 2 January 2021).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

CompostelaNayarit

coords: 21.24°, -104.90°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthJuneColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthAugustDriest monthApril

Mean daily temperature

22.0°C

Average daily high

27.2°C

Average daily low

17.9°C

Annual rainfall

1,489mm

Sunshine / day

10.3h

Mean relative humidity

80%

Average peak wind

11.1km/h

Seasonal range

5.1°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

37 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

143 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

30.3 °C

Average feels-like low

19.6 °C

Average peak gust

32.4 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

135 d/yr

Solar radiation

20.1 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.3 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.71 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

34.6 °C

17 April 1954

Coldest day

7.2 °C

2 January 2021

Wettest day

165 mm

15 July 1985

Windiest day

29.6 km/h

25 October 2002

Strongest gust

98.6 km/h

25 October 2002

Hottest feels-like

39.9 °C

23 July 1997

Coldest feels-like

3.7 °C

14 December 1997

Sunniest day

13.2 h

15 June 1957

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	32.6 °C22 October 2025	11.5 °C16 March 2025	22.9 °C	1,663 mm	64
2024	32.6 °C21 October 2024	11.4 °C27 March 2024	22.8 °C	1,524 mm	62
2023	32.9 °C16 August 2023	11.5 °C17 January 2023	22.9 °C	1,572 mm	78
2022	32.7 °C12 May 2022	10.5 °C19 March 2022	22.3 °C	1,531 mm	23
2021	32.0 °C8 October 2021	7.2 °C2 January 2021	22.3 °C	1,701 mm	44
2020	31.9 °C4 September 2020	11.2 °C4 January 2020	22.7 °C	1,626 mm	48
2019	32.3 °C11 June 2019	11.5 °C29 January 2019	22.7 °C	1,546 mm	35
2018	32.5 °C6 July 2018	11.6 °C21 January 2018	22.5 °C	1,605 mm	36
2017	32.7 °C24 October 2017	11.3 °C22 January 2017	22.6 °C	1,569 mm	29
2016	32.0 °C20 July 2016	8.3 °C10 March 2016	22.6 °C	1,577 mm	41
2015	32.0 °C13 May 2015	11.5 °C15 December 2015	22.8 °C	1,533 mm	37
2014	33.6 °C23 July 2014	11.3 °C18 March 2014	22.6 °C	1,768 mm	37
2013	32.3 °C13 September 2013	11.4 °C4 March 2013	22.4 °C	1,920 mm	37
2012	31.8 °C14 May 2012	11.5 °C11 January 2012	22.3 °C	1,447 mm	34
2011	32.8 °C1 June 2011	9.2 °C23 January 2011	22.1 °C	1,627 mm	48
2010	31.6 °C17 May 2010	10.5 °C12 December 2010	21.7 °C	1,831 mm	32
2009	31.9 °C25 September 2009	11.5 °C2 December 2009	22.5 °C	1,431 mm	34
2008	31.6 °C6 September 2008	9.0 °C7 March 2008	21.8 °C	1,562 mm	19
2007	31.9 °C10 October 2007	11.6 °C15 February 2007	22.3 °C	1,529 mm	23
2006	32.2 °C5 October 2006	10.4 °C25 December 2006	22.5 °C	1,579 mm	27
2005	32.8 °C7 September 2005	10.3 °C9 March 2005	22.1 °C	1,409 mm	27
2004	33.2 °C19 March 2004	10.2 °C25 February 2004	22.2 °C	1,559 mm	29
2003	32.8 °C31 May 2003	10.0 °C20 March 2003	22.7 °C	1,367 mm	69
2002	33.4 °C21 June 2002	10.0 °C14 January 2002	22.7 °C	1,276 mm	70
2001	32.9 °C23 August 2001	10.6 °C3 March 2001	22.5 °C	1,397 mm	90
2000	32.5 °C25 August 2000	11.1 °C3 February 2000	22.5 °C	1,682 mm	59
1999	33.2 °C13 July 1999	10.3 °C21 December 1999	22.4 °C	1,514 mm	66
1998	33.3 °C20 August 1998	9.7 °C7 February 1998	22.4 °C	1,788 mm	57
1997	33.3 °C25 May 1997	8.5 °C10 January 1997	22.2 °C	1,411 mm	47
1996	33.6 °C29 July 1996	10.9 °C2 February 1996	22.4 °C	1,654 mm	36
1995	31.9 °C31 May 1995	11.7 °C7 January 1995	22.6 °C	1,672 mm	26
1994	32.4 °C30 May 1994	11.9 °C30 January 1994	22.7 °C	1,340 mm	63
1993	32.9 °C12 June 1993	10.0 °C5 March 1993	22.2 °C	1,433 mm	39
1992	33.0 °C23 June 1992	10.6 °C5 February 1992	22.1 °C	1,818 mm	53
1991	32.6 °C20 June 1991	11.0 °C16 January 1991	22.2 °C	1,314 mm	51
1990	32.1 °C22 May 1990	11.5 °C23 February 1990	22.5 °C	1,543 mm	40
1989	33.3 °C20 April 1989	11.4 °C25 December 1989	22.2 °C	1,559 mm	42
1988	32.5 °C1 May 1988	8.9 °C24 January 1988	22.1 °C	1,489 mm	44
1987	33.2 °C22 July 1987	8.8 °C22 January 1987	22.0 °C	1,445 mm	50
1986	33.4 °C15 April 1986	10.0 °C15 March 1986	22.0 °C	1,336 mm	48
1985	32.2 °C6 June 1985	9.6 °C4 February 1985	21.8 °C	1,562 mm	24
1984	34.3 °C30 May 1984	10.1 °C26 January 1984	21.8 °C	1,921 mm	15
1983	33.1 °C26 September 1983	9.5 °C23 January 1983	21.6 °C	1,803 mm	39
1982	32.3 °C21 September 1982	11.4 °C4 February 1982	22.4 °C	1,243 mm	50
1981	31.1 °C17 September 1981	11.9 °C23 January 1981	22.0 °C	1,798 mm	15
1980	33.8 °C8 June 1980	11.6 °C11 January 1980	22.3 °C	1,792 mm	40
1979	32.2 °C11 June 1979	9.7 °C7 February 1979	21.9 °C	1,224 mm	21
1978	31.6 °C7 August 1978	9.3 °C13 February 1978	22.0 °C	1,839 mm	16
1977	31.9 °C14 July 1977	10.9 °C6 March 1977	22.0 °C	1,672 mm	15
1976	31.7 °C31 May 1976	11.1 °C2 January 1976	21.9 °C	1,510 mm	22
1975	32.1 °C3 June 1975	10.4 °C27 December 1975	21.4 °C	1,391 mm	15
1974	32.0 °C22 April 1974	11.7 °C20 February 1974	21.6 °C	1,583 mm	15
1973	32.1 °C13 May 1973	10.3 °C23 January 1973	21.6 °C	1,628 mm	23
1972	32.1 °C17 May 1972	11.7 °C1 April 1972	22.3 °C	1,321 mm	43
1971	31.8 °C7 May 1971	10.4 °C8 February 1971	21.7 °C	1,404 mm	23
1970	33.4 °C17 May 1970	11.1 °C14 January 1970	21.7 °C	1,291 mm	32
1969	33.5 °C3 July 1969	10.5 °C16 March 1969	21.7 °C	1,144 mm	25
1968	30.5 °C4 July 1968	10.5 °C12 March 1968	21.6 °C	1,097 mm	3
1967	31.4 °C28 May 1967	8.5 °C8 February 1967	21.6 °C	1,352 mm	15
1966	31.6 °C19 May 1966	11.3 °C30 January 1966	21.6 °C	1,332 mm	32
1965	32.8 °C30 April 1965	10.0 °C14 February 1965	21.5 °C	1,444 mm	48
1964	32.9 °C15 May 1964	11.4 °C25 February 1964	21.6 °C	1,115 mm	53
1963	32.8 °C23 May 1963	10.9 °C19 February 1963	21.9 °C	1,436 mm	53
1962	32.5 °C17 April 1962	11.9 °C6 January 1962	21.6 °C	1,320 mm	39
1961	32.6 °C22 April 1961	11.2 °C14 January 1961	21.5 °C	1,310 mm	37
1960	32.3 °C25 May 1960	9.6 °C14 February 1960	21.5 °C	1,408 mm	42
1959	31.6 °C4 April 1959	10.4 °C2 January 1959	21.8 °C	1,705 mm	9
1958	33.4 °C6 June 1958	10.8 °C25 January 1958	21.7 °C	1,995 mm	40
1957	33.4 °C19 June 1957	10.4 °C25 March 1957	21.9 °C	1,098 mm	37
1956	31.9 °C10 June 1956	9.8 °C6 February 1956	21.6 °C	1,371 mm	33
1955	32.3 °C12 May 1955	8.7 °C24 January 1955	21.4 °C	1,685 mm	37
1954	34.6 °C17 April 1954	12.2 °C28 February 1954	22.1 °C	1,382 mm	52
1953	34.0 °C11 June 1953	11.9 °C14 December 1953	21.5 °C	1,218 mm	35
1952	31.9 °C23 May 1952	10.9 °C6 February 1952	21.5 °C	1,367 mm	28
1951	31.9 °C19 June 1951	10.7 °C4 January 1951	22.0 °C	1,704 mm	33
1950	31.1 °C30 March 1950	10.4 °C14 February 1950	21.9 °C	1,410 mm	11
1949	31.2 °C27 May 1949	11.2 °C31 January 1949	21.6 °C	1,174 mm	16
1948	32.3 °C21 May 1948	10.7 °C24 January 1948	21.7 °C	1,589 mm	31
1947	32.4 °C9 July 1947	9.6 °C15 December 1947	21.2 °C	1,273 mm	44
1946	34.3 °C5 June 1946	9.9 °C8 January 1946	21.4 °C	1,453 mm	38
1945	32.2 °C2 September 1945	11.9 °C26 March 1945	21.4 °C	1,170 mm	37
1944	32.1 °C3 May 1944	11.9 °C20 March 1944	21.3 °C	1,303 mm	26
1943	32.2 °C18 April 1943	11.7 °C6 February 1943	21.4 °C	1,328 mm	29
1942	32.2 °C29 June 1942	10.5 °C8 March 1942	21.5 °C	1,229 mm	45
1941	32.2 °C24 May 1941	11.3 °C27 December 1941	21.3 °C	1,492 mm	35
1940	32.9 °C4 July 1940	10.2 °C17 February 1940	21.1 °C	1,050 mm	28

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

28.3 °C

+1.1 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

64 d/yr

+27

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1663 mm

+174 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	24.6 °C	-0.2 °C	38 mm	+16 mm
Feb	27.2 °C	+1.7 °C	0 mm	-14 mm
Mar	27.5 °C	+0.9 °C	0 mm	-7 mm
Apr	28.0 °C	-0.3 °C	0 mm	-4 mm
May	30.2 °C	+0.7 °C	20 mm	+6 mm
Jun	28.8 °C	+0.1 °C	353 mm	+167 mm
Jul	29.4 °C	+1.5 °C	370 mm	+4 mm
Aug	29.1 °C	+1.2 °C	308 mm	-63 mm
Sep	29.2 °C	+1.4 °C	412 mm	+80 mm
Oct	29.3 °C	+1.6 °C	133 mm	+6 mm
Nov	28.9 °C	+2.1 °C	4 mm	-19 mm
Dec	27.5 °C	+2.1 °C	24 mm	+1 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

32.6 °C

22 Oct 2025

Coldest day

11.5 °C

16 Mar 2025

Wettest day

68.7 mm

15 Jun 2025

Windiest day

15.9 km/h

10 Nov 2025

Strongest gust

49.7 km/h

10 Nov 2025

Hottest feels-like

38.0 °C

23 Jul 2025

Coldest feels-like

10.1 °C

25 Mar 2025

Sunniest day

12.8 h

24 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Compostela?

Compostela has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.0 °C and it receives 1,489 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Compostela?

The hottest day measured in Compostela between 1940 and 2025 was 17 April 1954, reaching 34.6 °C.

What is the coldest day in Compostela?

The coldest day measured in Compostela between 1940 and 2025 was 2 January 2021, at 7.2 °C.

Does it snow in Compostela?

Almost never: Compostela sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Compostela warmed?

Yes: Compostela warmed by +1.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Compostela?

The wettest day measured in Compostela between 1940 and 2025 was 15 July 1985, with 165 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Compostela?

The windiest day measured in Compostela between 1940 and 2025 was 25 October 2002, with winds reaching 29.6 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Compostela?

The warmest month in Compostela is June (24.1 °C on average); the coldest is January (19.0 °C).

How much does it rain in Compostela?

Compostela receives on average 1,489 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 143 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Compostela?

Compostela gets on average 10.3 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,760 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Compostela?

Yes: Compostela has on average 135 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Compostela?

In Compostela, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 39.9 °C on 23 July 1997, and the lowest was 3.7 °C on 14 December 1997.

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