The Mayagüez plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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57° on Nov. 11, 1996, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1899. Next is 59° in 1973.
Mayagüez’s center stands about 50 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 910 ft, a difference of 900 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pico Santa Ana, about 2,950 ft, 12 miles east-southeast.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 8×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Mayagüez has a tropical rainforest climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in June; winter nights fall to about 66° in January. About 78 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Mayagüez normally reaches 87° and falls to 71°. The record high is 99°, in 1915; the record low 60°, in 1995. The most rain on this date, 1.53 in, fell in 2003.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1899 at Coloso, 12 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
