Ciudad Juárez sits on the Rio Grande in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, directly across the border from El Paso, Texas, in the Chihuahuan Desert at around 1,140 metres above sea level and approximately 31.69°N, 106.42°W. Its desert, high-altitude position gives it a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — hot summers, cold winters, and very little rain.

Summer, from June to August, is hot and dry, with June and July the hottest — highs around 35–36°C, sometimes exceeding 40°C — though the desert altitude and very low humidity make the heat dry and the nights cool markedly. The North American monsoon brings brief, sometimes violent afternoon thunderstorms in July and August, the only reliably wet part of the year.

Winter, from December to February, is cold and dry, with January the coolest month — highs around 14–15°C and nights that regularly fall to freezing, near -3°C, with occasional snow flurries. Days are bright and sunny, and the large gap between mild days and cold nights is characteristic of the high desert.

Ciudad Juárez is very dry, receiving only around 230–260 mm of rain a year — true desert levels — with over half falling in the brief monsoon thunderstorms of July, August and September, while the rest of the year is nearly rainless. Live rainfall, humidity, and pressure readings for the city are shown in the panels above.

Ciudad Juárez sits in the heart of the Chihuahuan Desert, where the altitude gives it genuinely cold winter nights alongside searing summer days — a temperature range of more than 40°C across the year. Spring brings fierce dust storms sweeping across the arid basin, and the region's chronic water scarcity is a defining constraint on the border city.

To follow any single measurement in Juarez more closely, use our live instruments: the online barometer for atmospheric pressure, the thermometer for temperature, the hygrometer for humidity, the anemometer for wind speed, the wind vane for wind direction, and the rain gauge for rainfall.