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I am not far from retirement age and have actually considered Mexico as a place to retire. I live in Fl and am kind of tired of the hot humid weather and would like to live a area of low humidity and mild summers. Does such a place exist. Also how widely available is Dish Network TV. I cant live without my college football. Go Gators.
Get out your map of Mexico and look up the altitude of each city you're considering. That can be very helpful.
Weatherunderground.com is very helpful. Click on their Trip Planner icon.
Insert a two-week timeframe for any time of the year and it will reveal the past weather conditions for that city for the last 10-20 years: Expected sunshine, coldest days, hottest days, humidity levels, wind speed (don't forget windchill factor) and precipitation. I use this site often to plan any future trips or possible place to relocate.
Get out your map of Mexico and look up the altitude of each city you're considering. That can be very helpful.
Weatherunderground.com is very helpful.
Altitude can be a very good indicator of the temperatures - Personally I love the area around Xalapa, Vera Cruz - but it's humid.
Regarding weather reporting - I think you will be hard pressed to find any historical (or current) info on all but the largest Mexican cities. The only locations that report weather are the larger airports and they are few and far between in Mexico.
In trying to check the weather online for many cities in Veracruz and northern Oaxaca I find that they all show the reporting station to be the airport in the port city of Vera Cruz - in many cases over 150 miles away and very different geographically.
Central Mexico, Jalisco state. I have lived in several place there and found Ajijic, south of Guadalajara to have great weather. Also San Miguel de Allende has great weather and cool nights.
Some higher elevations are also nice like Zacatecas.
I just want to be clear - There is Vera Cruz the city (on the coast and very hot) and there is Vera Cruz the state. The state ranges from tropical beaches, hot sticky jungle, to snow capped (year round) mountains.
If I recall, Zacatecas sits up at, like, 8-9000 feet. I was there once in late October, and with the wind blowing, it was freezing, not a cool place.
Even in Guadalajara @5000 feet it can get chilly in winter. I researched it once on weatherunderground.com and found it had sunk to 35 degrees one night in January. And that's dry cold, which feels colder.
Moving on down to Oaxaca, even with their high altitude, it was more suitable.
Yes, Baja is more in line with constant cool.
Getting away from Mexico, Guatamala City @5000 feet is a sure bet, or Antigua, a favorite of American expats.
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