Погода: Плая-дель-Кармен, февраль

February in Playa is low-to-mid 80s F in the middle of the dry season, and the local variable is the norte - the northern fronts that arrive through December to March with wind, cooler air and sometimes a few days of rain. Winds of 10 to 15 mph are routine and usually mean red flags on the beach; occasionally a norte closes the port and the Cozumel ferries stop, which is worth knowing if an excursion is booked. Sargassum normally starts arriving in late February, at the very end of the clean window. The record: 29.1C days feeling like 31C, 20C nights, 7.4 precipitation days, 9.8 hours of sun, a 27C sea and a 16 kph wind.

Regulars are specific a cold front passes through roughly every 10 to 14 days here, each one lasting 2 to 3 days and dropping overnight temperatures as low as 15C before things warm back up. Our row backs that warm, genuinely wet read, 28.7C reading as a hot 32C, over 20.6C nights feeling 23C, with 53.4mm of rain across 10.6 days and humidity at 78 percent. Regulars are consistent any rain that does fall typically arrives overnight or early morning, the rest of a given day staying clear and sunny, all-day torrential rain genuinely rare. Early December specifically gets singled out as great weather paired with the lowest prices of the year. The sea sits at a bath-warm 28C. The record: 9.4 hours of sun, a 13.9 kph wind and AQI 32.

Playa del Carmen-forum threads on July weather call it hot and humid, mid-to-late July specifically singled out as when the region's Canicula heat wave really sets in and intensifies the discomfort further. Rain is technically a daily forecast item most of the month, but posters consistently say the actual experience diverges from that: showers land overnight or as a brief, sharp afternoon burst rather than settling in for the day, since the heat burns off cloud cover quickly, especially in the back half of the month. More than one thread describes checking a forecast calling for rain all week and getting mostly sun and heat instead. The standing advice is not to let the forecast dictate a trip - pack for both heat and a quick downpour, and expect beach mornings to be reliably good regardless of what the app predicted. The record: 33.6C days feeling like a punishing 40C, 24.3C nights, 86mm across 16.2 days, 81 percent humidity, a 29.8C sea and 11.7 hours of sun.

Playa del Carmen-forum threads on January weather call it close to ideal for the beach - sunny, warm days, most showers brief and overnight or a short afternoon burst, though occasionally a stretch of two or three drizzly days shows up. The one real variable is cold fronts: roughly every 10 to 14 days one moves through, dropping temperatures a few degrees for two or three days and making long sleeves genuinely useful after dark, even though the ocean itself stays warm enough for swimming throughout. Pools, several posters note, run noticeably cooler than the sea. Overall the month is called nearly perfect, sweater for the evenings recommended just in case a front rolls through during the stay. The record: 27.8C days feeling like 30C, 19.7C nights, 42mm across 11 days, a 27.2C sea, 77 percent humidity and 9.2 hours of sun.

April in Playa del Carmen is the best weather and the worst seaweed at the same time. On the weather regulars are unanimous - mid-80s Fahrenheit, calm ocean, and trips that come home without a single rained-out day, which our row's 33.8mm across 7 days supports. On sargassum they are equally blunt: April through June is the peak, usually arriving daily in moderate to large amounts, though it comes and goes and the end of the month can be clear or not. Crowds are the third factor: March and April are spring break and high season, and the useful distinction they draw is before or after Easter, with after noticeably calmer. The record: 32.2C days that feel like 36C, 22.1C nights, 11.5 hours of sun and a 27.7C sea.