The cities with the most weeks a year of comfortable, dry weather for being outdoors. Of 133 towns and cities that draw visitors in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, 73 have at least one Good stretch; these are the ones where it lasts longest.
The list
- 1Good all yearTexcocoMexico
There is no bad season here: every part of the year rates Good or better for being outside. Its weakest stretch still averages 69, Good. At its best in late February.
- 2Good all yearSan Juan del RíoMexico
Easy outdoors rates Good or better in every ten-day section of the year. Its weakest stretch still averages 65, Good. At its best in mid July.
- 3Good all yearPátzcuaroMexico
There is no bad season here: every part of the year rates Good or better for being outside. Its weakest stretch still averages 55, Good. At its best in late February.
- 4Good all yearGuatemala CityGuatemala
Easy outdoors rates Good or better in every ten-day section of the year. Its weakest stretch still averages 67, Good. At its best in early July.
- 5Good all yearSan JoséCosta Rica
There is no bad season here: every part of the year rates Good or better for being outside. Its weakest stretch still averages 56, Good. At its best in early December.
- 6Good 28 of 36TijuanaMexico
Easy outdoors rates Good or better for 28 of the year’s 36 ten-day sections, about nine and a half months in all. Its weakest stretch still averages 49, Fair. At its best in early June.
- 7Good 18 of 36Cabo San LucasMexico
Easy outdoors rates Good or better for 18 of the year’s 36 ten-day sections, about six months in all. Its weakest stretch still averages 4, Poor. At its best in late February.
- 8Good 17 of 36Puerto PeñascoMexico
Easy outdoors rates Good or better for 17 of the year’s 36 ten-day sections, about five and a half months in all. Its weakest stretch still averages 0, Poor. At its best in late March.
- 9Good 11 of 36JuárezMexico
Easy outdoors rates Good or better for 11 of the year’s 36 ten-day sections, about three and a half months in all. Its weakest stretch still averages 1, Poor. At its best in mid May.
- 10Good 11 of 36Piedras NegrasMexico
Easy outdoors rates Good or better for 11 of the year’s 36 ten-day sections, about three and a half months in all. Its weakest stretch still averages 1, Poor. At its best in early March.
- 11Good 8 of 36Grand TurkTurks and Caicos Islands
Easy outdoors rates Good or better for 8 of the year’s 36 ten-day sections, about two and a half months in all. Its weakest stretch still averages 0, Poor. At its best in early February.
- 12Good 6 of 36HavanaCuba
Easy outdoors rates Good or better for 6 of the year’s 36 ten-day sections, about two months in all. Its weakest stretch still averages 0, Poor. At its best in early March.
- 13Good 6 of 36ViñalesCuba
Easy outdoors rates Good or better for 6 of the year’s 36 ten-day sections, about two months in all. Its weakest stretch still averages 0, Poor. At its best in mid February.
- 14Good 5 of 36Saint John’sAntigua and Barbuda
Easy outdoors rates Good or better for 5 of the year’s 36 ten-day sections, about six weeks in all. Its weakest stretch still averages 1, Poor. At its best in mid February.
- 15Good 1 of 36BridgetownBarbados
Easy outdoors rates Good or better for 1 of the year’s 36 ten-day sections, about ten days in all. Its weakest stretch still averages 3, Poor. At its best in mid February.
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 across the whole year; 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.
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.