Weather in Zapopan in October

Mexico · 20-year averages, October

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, October is the one. Highs average 26.4 °C, lows 14.3 °C, and rain falls on 11 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 6 of 12 in Zapopan: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 11 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 30.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 5.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 31 mm — roughly 60% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 2 mm in the driest year against 112 mm in the wettest, around an average of 52 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 5.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 70%.

How October sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 25.8 °C in September, 26.4 here, 25.8 in November. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: November brings 9 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in October

11.7 hours of daylight, losing 0.6 hours across the month. That is between Zapopan's extremes of 13.4 and 10.9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 23.7 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 1565 m, altitude is doing as much work here as latitude: thinner air means fierce sun by day and heat that leaves the moment it sets.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

October in Zapopan versus nearby

If Zapopan is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Morelia is close enough to be a coin toss — 2 °C cooler, 2 days more rain. San Luis Potosí is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 5 days less rain.

So: October works, with January the better month by 16 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Zapopan

MonthHigh °CLow °CRain daysRain mmHumidity %Daylight hScore
January24.69.7 210531197
February2711.2 2174811.597
March29.712.8 18381286
April32.515.4 013312.675
May33.417.4 6283913.162
June30.218.1 211496013.451
July26.317 282057513.365
August2616.5 271697712.965
September25.816 231437912.365
October26.414.3 11527011.781
November25.811.6 2156211.297
December24.810.1 275710.997

See all twelve months in Zapopan, or where else to go in October.

Planning the rest of the trip

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