Choosing the best travel time to go abroad

What is the best travel and departure time for Mexico?

• In Mexico City, year-round temperatures fluctuate between 20 and 26 degrees during the day. Nights can be cold, but it almost never freezes. Merida (Yucatan) has a different climate. Here the temperature does not often fall below 28 degrees during the day. It also stays around 20 degrees Celsius at night almost all year. The higher-lying Monterrey in northeastern Mexico has greater fluctuations in temperature. In the summer months it gets 32 to 36 degrees during the day here, while in the winter months it is barely 20 degrees.

Best travel time in Mexico

• The best travel time is from October to April, during the dry season.

Worst travel time in Mexico

• In May, the rainy season begins in southern Mexico which continues in the north until October. This period is also hurricane season. It does not rain all day during the rainy season, but there are heavy showers daily. These are often heavy and short-lived. During this period it is often very hot and humid.

Hours of sunshine in Mexico

• The number of sunshine hours in Mexico is between 2100 (Yucatàn) and 2300 (Plateau of Mexico) per year.

Sea temperature in Mexico

• Between 20 and 25 degrees.

What is the best travel and departure time for Costa Rica?

• Costa Rica, like most other tropical countries, has two seasons.
• The dry season lasts from December through April. The rest of the year is the wet season.
• Actually, only in the highlands is the dry season really dry; in the rest of the country you can always count on a shower.
• In central Costa Rica the average temperature is 22°C , on the coast and northwest the temperature is higher.

Best travel time in Costa Rica

• March is the driest and least clammy period of the year, and the temperature is just right.
• April and May are also pleasant.

Worst travel time in Mexico

• June and July see the most rain, and it is especially muggy on the coast.

What is the best travel and departure time for Guatemala?

• Because of the differences in altitude, there is much difference in Guatemala's climate. Within a few hours you leave the cold mountains and arrive in the humid warmth of the coast. The higher you are, the cooler it is. Especially after the sun goes down, it can get chilly and even cold quickly. This starts as early as Antigua which is at about 1,700 meters. On the coast it is almost always sunny and humid hot, sometimes with intense but liberating thunderstorms.

Best travel time in Guatemala?

• The most ideal time to travel is between mid-November and January. The rainy season leaves behind a green country, but the drawbacks of the rainy season (storms, impassable roads, flooding) are pretty much over.

Worst travel time in Guatemala?

• The months of March and April, especially in the lower areas (Pacific coast, Tikal, Livingstone), are quite hot.

Hours of sunshine in Guatemala?

• Count on about 8 hours a day of sunshine in the months of January and February and 2 hours a day in the months of June and July.