Mexico
Hiking the Sierra Madre
5 destinations across 1 country, from 2077 to 3395 metres, ranked by their strongest scored month.
When the area opens
Most of it is walkable all year
How many of the 5 destinations clear the recommendation gate in each month.
Ranked by best month
5 destinations
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When to hike the Sierra Madre
All 5 destinations clear our recommendation criteria in every month of the year. The question here is not whether a place is open but how the months differ.
Averaged across the destinations, May is the warmest month at 16 degrees in the hiking window and January the coldest at 11.
How far apart the destinations are
The selected grid cells run from 2,077 metres at Copper Canyon to 3,395 metres at Pico de Orizaba, with a median of 3,310 metres. Both clear the criteria in 12 months (all year).
Season length is uniform here: every destination is recommendable in 12 months.
Conditions in March
March is when the open destinations score highest on average. Hiking-window temperature then runs from 12 degrees at Pico de Orizaba to 20 at Chiapas Highlands, and rain falls on 9 to 50 percent of days depending on the destination.
What these figures cover
Each destination is described by one selected ERA5-Land grid cell, averaged over 1991 to 2025. The figures above summarise those 5 cells. They are not a map of the whole area or of any route, and they are not a forecast.
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