Puebla
City in Mexico: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Catedral puebla nocturna: Alejandro Quintanar, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Puebla is a city in Mexico. About 1.7 million people live in the city proper, making it the 4th largest city of Mexico in our atlas.
It lies at 19.05° N, 98.21° W, about 2,166 m (7,106 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Mexico_City time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Puebla. Green dots: other major cities of Mexico. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Puebla has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb). The warmest month is usually Apr, with average highs near 28°C (82°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 6°C (43°F). Around 878 mm (35 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Sep.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in MexicoNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl · 93 km
- Iztapalapa · 96 km
- Mexico City · 105 km
- Gustavo Adolfo Madero · 107 km
- Ecatepec de Morelos · 109 km
- Santiago de Querétaro · 286 km
- León de los Aldama · 431 km
- Guadalajara · 569 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3521081 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q125293 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Catedral puebla nocturna: Alejandro Quintanar, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla: Israel Espinosa López : Zeisseon, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Museo Internacional del Barroco: CUTI1, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- La Constancia Mexicana: Rleonmx, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mampar Pue: No machine-readable author provided. Sachavir assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Estadio Hermanos Serdán: CUTI1, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Palacio Municipal de Puebla: Uploader Gustavo Velarde, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- En el Mercado de El Parián, los artesanos y turistas son custodiados por San Francisco de Asís.: Jesús Zavala, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Zocalo de Puebla: Gusvel, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
