Bacalar (Laguna Bacalar) weather by month
The best time to visit Bacalar (Laguna Bacalar) is December to February — 80/100 in February, 30°C and 8 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, November to May (74/100 on average).
The worst month is June at 53/100 — sweltering, soaked, clean air. See June →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Mexico →
Best season: November to May (74/100 on average) · worst June (53/100)
- Days
- 30°C
- Nights
- 21°C
- Wet days
- 8
- Sun
- 9.9 h
- Humidity
- 78%
- Daylight
- 12 h

Bacalar, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Bacalar is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Bacalar through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Bacalar in February
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
Peak crowdsCarnaval de Bacalar, Dry high season(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Bacalar
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Forum posters place January inside the more pleasant November-April stretch here - less humid and hot than summer, and correspondingly fewer mosquitoes around the famous Lagoon of Seven Colors. Days are typically sunny and warm, with pleasantly cool nights, though posters note a passing cold front can occasionally bring a properly chilly night and grey, drizzly skies - February sees this more often than January, but it's not ruled out either month. Hurricane risk, a real consideration in the surrounding region from June through November, is essentially off the table by January, one more reason posters favor this month for lagoon swimming and boat trips.
Yucatán coast forum threads describe July as hot and humid with daytime highs around 33C, right around when the 'canícula' - the year's hottest, driest stretch - typically begins in mid-month. It's technically wet season, but posters were consistent that forecasts predicting daily storms don't match reality; when rain does show up it's usually overnight or a brief afternoon shower rather than an all-day event. Hurricane risk in July specifically stays low, picking up more in the following months.
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