Best time to visit Tulum
The month-by-month edit — when Tulum actually opens up, when to avoid it, and how crowds and hotel rates move through the year.
Editor's window: Dec, Mar Three nights in CDMX, four on the Pacific coast.
The short answer
When Tulum is at its best
Tulum has had the most public reputational crash of any luxury destination in the last five years — overdevelopment, beach erosion, sargassum, prices that make St Barths look reasonable. The good hotels are still genuinely good, but the trick is to know which beach stretch (Zona Hotelera north end), which months (December–March), and which restaurants are still worth the booking.
Month by month
The Tulum calendar
Average daytime high, rain days, crowd pressure (1–5) and hotel-rate index (1–5). Verified against climate-data.org and our hotel-rate tracking.
| Month | Avg high | Rain days | Crowd | Rate idx |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 28°C | 5 d | ||
| Feb | 29°C | 4 d | ||
| Mar | 30°C | 3 d | ||
| Apr | 31°C | 4 d | ||
| May | 32°C | 9 d | ||
| Jun | 32°C | 15 d | ||
| Jul | 33°C | 13 d | ||
| Aug | 33°C | 13 d | ||
| Sep | 32°C | 16 d | ||
| Oct | 31°C | 15 d | ||
| Nov | 29°C | 9 d | ||
| Dec | 28°C | 7 d |
Sources: Numbeo cost-of-living — Tulum · climate-data.org — Tulum