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CANCUN · OCTOBER · 21.17° N Cancun in October is a swimming month with a raincoat clause. The sea off the Hotel Zone averages 85.2°F, warmer than the air on any October night, and an average month records measurable rain on 15 days. Neither figure describes a ruined week. Together they describe a trip that … Read more
CANCUN · AUGUST · 21.17° N Book Cancun for August and you are buying warm water and a very long day. The sea off the hotel zone averages 84.8°F, daytime highs sit at 85.8°F, and the nights only fall back to 79.4°F. The trade arrives in inches: 5.75 of them across the month, spread over … Read more
CANCUN · SEPTEMBER · 21.17° N Cancun in September is a warm-water month with a wet ledger. The ERA5 reanalysis for the grid cell over the city puts the average high at 84.7°F and the average low at 78.5°F, with 8.08 inches of rain falling across 18.7 days that record at least a tenth of … Read more
CANCUN · JUNE · 21.17° N June arrives in Cancun with the sea already at bath temperature and the sky starting to negotiate. Average highs sit at 84.6°F, the water off the hotel zone averages 84.1°F, and the rain that barely showed up in May turns into 6.59 inches spread over roughly fourteen days. The … Read more
CANCUN · APRIL · 21.2° N April puts Cancun at an average high of 82.8°F and an average low of 75.9°F, with 1.48 inches of rain spread across roughly three and a half wet days. That is the month in one line: warm, bright, and drier than the May behind it by more than two … Read more
CANCUN · FEBRUARY · 21.17° N February normals in Cancun come out at 79.0°F by day, 72.9°F at night, and 1.43 inches of rain across the whole month. The sea reads 80.2°F, which is a shade above the average afternoon air. For a week built around swimming, boat crossings and open-air ruins, those three figures … Read more
