5 day trip
20 Jan to 24 Jan 2027
How the score works
One number out of 100, blended from the four factors below: comfort, crowds, prices and weather. Higher means go now. Lower means queues, rain and paying more for the privilege.
Factor breakdown
Crowds
How many other people had the same clever idea. Built from researched monthly visitor patterns, then pushed harder for public holidays, school breaks and big events.
Weather
The weather that cancels plans rather than just dampens them. Built from monthly climate baselines plus researched storm, typhoon, smoke and snow periods.
Prices
How much the dates themselves cost you. Built from researched monthly demand, with the same holiday and event surges that drive the crowds, because airlines can read a calendar too.
Comfort
Whether you will enjoy being outside or merely endure it. Built from average highs and lows, humidity and rain risk.
Climate on this trip
- Avg low
- 10°C (50°F)
- Avg high
- 29°C (84°F)
- Rain risk
- low
- Humidity
- crisp
- SMN Normales Climatológicas 1991-2020 — Oaxaca (20079)
- timeanddate.com — Oaxaca climate
- NASA POWER climatology point — Oaxaca City
- Rough Guides — Mexico: when to go (updated 15 May 2025)
- Gobierno de Oaxaca — official Guelaguetza 2026 programme (announced 12 May 2026)
- Gobierno de Oaxaca (SECTUR) — Benito Juárez holiday-weekend results (18 March 2025)
- Gobierno de Oaxaca — January-August 2025 visitor results (27 September 2025)
- Gobierno de Oaxaca (SECTUR) — AMHMO meeting (9 July 2025)
- INAH — Zona Arqueológica de Monte Albán
- Ley Federal del Trabajo, Article 74
- SEP — 2026-27 school calendar announcement (15 July 2026)
- Lonely Planet — Best time to visit Oaxaca (published and updated 30 Mar 2022, stale)
- dof.gob.mx
Why go
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Excellent Weather
Comfortable outdoor conditions make these dates easy for sightseeing.
What shapes these dates
No major dated conditions stand out for this window.
Easier days
No easier day breaks away from the pack.
Tougher days
No tougher day drops away from the pack.
Nearby alternatives
This window is already one of the strongest options across the nearby months.
Nearby months
Plan again
Run another trip with the same place and new dates, or somewhere else entirely.
Whatever you decide,decide it with open eyes.
