Veracruz
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About
Veracruz, also known as Heroica Veracruz, is a major port city and municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and the most populous city in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city is located along the coast in the central part of the state, 90 km (56 mi) southeast of the state capital Xalapa.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Veracruz, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Veracruz
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Partly cloudy
30° / 24°
UV Very high
Sat
Thunderstorm
31° / 23°
UV Very high
Sun
Thunderstorm
33° / 26°
UV Very high
Mon
Thunderstorm
34° / 27°
UV Very high
Tue
Thunderstorm
32° / 27°
UV Very high
Wed
Thunderstorm
31° / 27°
0.6 mm
UV Very high
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
43° / 19°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.0h
05:49 – 18:51local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Veracruz
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is General Heriberto Jara International Airport (VER) at 7 km.
Getting around Veracruz
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, No machine-readable author provided. Evazquezm assumed (based on copyright claims)..
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.