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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
CANCUN · JANUARY · 21.17° N Cancun in January runs to an average high of 77.7°F and an average low of 72.0°F. Both are the mildest of the winter stretch here: December afternoons reach 78.7°F, February afternoons 79.0°F, and January nights sit 1.3°F under December’s. Nobody books a flight south for 1.3°F. What that degree … Read more
CANCUN · MAY · 21.2° N May is the last month before Cancun’s wet season shows up in the totals. Days run to an average high of 84.3°F, the Caribbean sits at 82.6°F, and rain adds up to 3.58 inches across the month, against 6.59 inches in June. What May takes away is April’s dry-season … Read more
CANCUN · MARCH · 21.17° N Cancun in March averages a high of 80.4°F, a low of 73.8°F and 1.29 inches of rain across the whole month. The sea surface off the hotel zone averages 80.7°F. That pairing is why the month sells: water warm enough to stay in for an hour at a stretch, … Read more
CANCUN · THE 12-MONTH VERDICT · 21.2° N Cancun sells one photograph all year: white sand, water the color of a swimming pool, a short flight from the United States. The calendar under that photograph is anything but flat. The same stretch of beach takes 1.29 inches of rain in an average March and 8.08 … Read more
