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The consistent thing about the weather in San Miguel de Allende is, as in most places, it’s cooler at night than in the day. However, the temperature change from day to night is much more extreme than in other places I’ve lived or visited. It’s typical to change 30 Fahrenheit from night until daytime here. 

 

January and February can be cold at night in San Miguel de Allende. The typical nighttime temperature in January and February is...

The consistent thing about the weather in San Miguel de Allende is, as in most places, it’s cooler at night than in the day. However, the temperature change from day to night is much more extreme than in other places I’ve lived or visited. It’s typical to change 30 Fahrenheit from night until daytime here. 

 

January and February can be cold at night in San Miguel de Allende. The typical nighttime temperature in January and February is anywhere from 35 Fahrenheit to 42 Fahrenheit. We have frost maybe twice a winter- once in December and once in January. That’s sad because it immediately kills the beautiful flowers, but the flowers come back. 

 

I’m not in San Miguel de Allende in December, so I can’t speak for how cold it is then, but I know that the temperature in San Miguel de Allende in January and in February is between 35 Fahrenheit to 42 Fahrenheit at the coldest, but by 11 o’clock, it’s up to 60 Fahrenheit, and by noon or 1 o’clock, it’s usually 65 Fahrenheit - 70 Fahrenheit. 

 

The temperature during most of the fall and spring in San Miguel de Allende stays in the 70’s (Fahrenheit) in the daytime, but it gets quite cold in January and February at night. In March, the night temperatures are in the upper 40’s (Fahrenheit). May is the hottest month, and it’s the only month that is humid here in San Miguel de Allende, and that’s when the rainy season begins. 

 

The humidity in May in San Miguel de Allende moves out in June, July and August. Even the temperature in April gets in to the low 80’s (Fahrenheit), but it’s not humid. 

 

The best part about the weather in San Miguel de Allende is that the sun shines most days, which was one of the biggest shocks I had when I came here, because I come from a place where we have at least 70% of days without sun. 

 

Where I come from, we’re known as the Seattle of the East. It just rains a lot. Even when it doesn’t rain, it’s cloudy, so we don’t have much sun. Because of this, outdoor activities have to be planned around the weather. Even in the summer when the weather is warm, you can’t plan outdoor activities ahead freely. I moved to San Miguel de Allende in January, and on the first day, I got up and went to see if it’s cold, or if it’s snowing or raining. I saw that the sun was out. On the sixth day, when I pulled the draperies open, I saw that the sun was still shining during the day for six consecutive days, I said, “Wow! It must shine here a lot!” It does. It’s unusual to have a cloudy or a rainy day all day.

 

(Mary Agnes McKay-- on our left-- on a sunny  October day, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, pictured.) 

The Corozal Airport is half a mile outside of the town, and the planes take off just over the southern end of town. From the Corozal Airport, you can fly to Ambergris Caye and on to any other airport within Belize. If you land at the Ladyville International Airport just outside of Belize City, you can take a flight via Ambergris Caye and land in Corozal in about 35-40 minutes.

 

You can go to Chetumal, which is in Mexico, just over the border with Corozal,...

The Corozal Airport is half a mile outside of the town, and the planes take off just over the southern end of town. From the Corozal Airport, you can fly to Ambergris Caye and on to any other airport within Belize. If you land at the Ladyville International Airport just outside of Belize City, you can take a flight via Ambergris Caye and land in Corozal in about 35-40 minutes.

 

You can go to Chetumal, which is in Mexico, just over the border with Corozal, and fly direct to Mexico City. There are currently two flights a day in Chetumal, and from Mexico City you can connect to anywhere in North America. From Corozal Town, it would be 15 minutes to the border. Chetumal is the closest Mexican town to Belize right on the border, and it’s a city of about 500,000 people, which is more than the entire population of Belize.

 

(Orchid Bay, Belize, pictured.)

In Panama we have a very American style way of dressing. If you are going to the movies or to the shopping mall, you can wear jeans and a sweater, and if you’re going to work, you can wear dressy pants, a dress, or a blouse. If you’re going to a big birthday party or a wedding, you may wear a more fancy dress, like cocktail dresses or night dresses. 

 

Most of the people that you see around in Panama are wearing jeans or Bermuda shorts....

In Panama we have a very American style way of dressing. If you are going to the movies or to the shopping mall, you can wear jeans and a sweater, and if you’re going to work, you can wear dressy pants, a dress, or a blouse. If you’re going to a big birthday party or a wedding, you may wear a more fancy dress, like cocktail dresses or night dresses. 

 

Most of the people that you see around in Panama are wearing jeans or Bermuda shorts. During the hot season- January, February, and March- people wear Bermuda shorts and polo shirts, or even shirts that have no sleeves, except if you’re going to some banks where some don’t allow sleeveless shirts or flip-flops. Everything else is permitted.

 

There really is nothing that you should not wear in Panama. People here in Panama are more open-minded than anywhere else in Latin America. When I studied in Taiwan, I had many friends from all over Latin America- Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Paraguay, and their style of dressing was very conservative, like a routine of things that they have to wear, but Panamanians are very American-like. We wear anything- if you see it in the magazine, in the movies or in Hollywood, you can wear it. Anything is possible in Panama.

 

(Fashion Week in Panama, pictured.)