Big cities where April is comfortable for a day on foot between sights. Of 46 places with a guide of their own in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, 11 rate Good or better in April. These seven are the best of them, spread across the region.
The list
- 179 · GoodQuerétaroMexico
A typical midday in April feels like 23°C, and the Easy outdoors rating averages 79 over the stretch. It rates Good or better all year, not just now. Open it on the map at mid April.
- 277 · GoodPueblaMexico
Midday in April feels like 23°C under partly cloudy skies, which rates 77, Good, for easy outdoors. This is not a short window: it rates Good or better all year. See mid April on the map.
- 377 · GoodCabo San LucasMexico
Rated 77 (Good) for easy outdoors in April: midday feels like 24°C, with mostly clear skies. The good spell lasts about six months, from late November to mid May. Rain is rare at this time of year. Open it on the map at mid April.
- 472 · GoodGuatemala CityGuatemala
A typical midday in April feels like 25°C, and the Easy outdoors rating averages 72 over the stretch. This is not a short window: it rates Good or better all year. See mid April on the map.
- 572 · GoodTijuanaMexico
Midday in April feels like 17°C under partly cloudy skies, which rates 72, Good, for easy outdoors. The good spell lasts about nine and a half months, from mid March to mid December. Open it on the map at mid April.
- 661 · GoodSan JoséCosta Rica
Rated 61 (Good) for easy outdoors in April: midday feels like 26°C, with often cloudy skies. This is not a short window: it rates Good or better all year. See mid April on the map.
- 757 · GoodNassauThe Bahamas
A typical midday in April feels like 27°C, and the Easy outdoors rating averages 57 over the stretch. The good spell lasts about five months, from late November to mid April. Open it on the map at mid April.
How this list is worked out
The data
Every figure comes from a decade of weather-station observations, blended into one typical year and read at midday, local solar time. Scores here are averaged in April; a city missing a reading for any part of that stretch is left out rather than scored on part of it.
The rating
Easy outdoors: A comfortable feels-like gates the score — best 16–26 °C for an easy day out (strolling, sitting out, sightseeing). Dryness matters most; strong wind knocks it back. Sun is a bonus, not required. A place is also left out when its typical readings contradict its own rating, for example a high score alongside frequent rain.
The spread
To keep one warm corner from filling the list, entries are at least 150 km apart, no more than three sit within 1,000 km of each other, and no more than three come from one country unless the list would otherwise run short.
Only places that draw visitors
Towns and cities with plenty of hotels, guest houses and holiday lets nearby for their size, or a great many of them in all, counted from Overture Maps Places, an open dataset. That keeps out places the weather favours but nobody travels to. Where two places share one resort or city, the one a visitor would name is kept.
The dotted links open the map at that place and time of year, on the same layer. The map remembers the time of day you last chose there; set it to midday to see these exact numbers.