Around the northern territories of Mexico temperatures are quite severe. The vast flatlands framed by the peaks of the Occidental and Oriental Sierra Madre Ridge are arid and hot, showing some very high temperatures during summer (late June to early November), when thermometers can easily get to show numbers above 38° C.
Weather conditions can utterly vary within the mountainous areas of northern Mexico, where winter seasons are very cold (late December to early March), usually freezing during the night time.
In the
Pacific Coastline, summer temperatures borders
35° C around the southern areas (Mazatlán or Puerto Vallarta) and
30° C in the northern areas (Guaymas). On winter time, these temperatures
would usually decrease in some 10°C.
The fecund lands and thick jungles in the
Yucatan Peninsula
and Southern Mexico are characterised for their high temperatures
and rainy areas. Within this geographical zone is located Cancún,
a beach resort that shows a very hot climate throughout the year,
and Acapulco, which shows a yearly temperature average of 32 centigrade
degrees.
In the San Cristóbal de las Casas (Chiapas) mountain ridge, climate is colder and drier. Oaxaca, at about 1.500 m.a.s.l., temperature can drop to 0° C during winter nights, rising to 38° C in the summer season.