Mexico Newsletter — September 2025

Your month-to-month Mexico publication is stuffed with inspiration, significant data, useful connections, and ideas for higher residing, way of life, and leisure in Mexico.

Living & Lifestyle insights for September

Insights and ideas for higher residing & way of life in Mexico

Mexico celebrates its independence in September
By late August, distributors are out on busy avenue corners promoting flags and different patriotic paraphernalia, heralding that Mexico’s Independence Day, one of many nation’s most necessary holidays, is on the horizon.  Mexico’s independence is historically celebrated with El Grito on the eve of September fifteenth and September sixteenth is a Public Holiday. This yr, the fifteenth falls on Monday and that may possible create an unofficial prolonged long-weekend vacation for a lot of, colloquially known as a puente.

Seasonal adjustments
This yr’s rain season, that impacts a lot of the nation’s mainland, has been particularly plentiful, and storms proceed to drench the panorama. September tends to be one of many wettest months of the yr throughout the mainland.  The autumn equinox this month heralds the seasonal turning level because the halcyon days of summer season yield to fall’s changeable local weather. Sweltering summer season temperatures alongside the coastal plains start to reasonable, and a few residing within the mountain highlands might start to swap summer season shorts for hotter apparel, particularly throughout early mornings and late evenings that change into noticeably cooler beginning in October.

Applying for Permanent Residency in Mexico
Several readers who will not be retired have not too long ago contacted us asking about making use of for Permanent Residency in Mexico.  Mexican consulates require that candidates making use of for Permanent Residency be of retirement age/drawing a pension to qualify.  If you don’t qualify for Permanent Residency straight away, you possibly can apply for Temporary Residency first and, after holding that for 4 consecutive years, it’s possible you’ll apply to alter it for Permanent Residency.

Shopping for meals in Mexico
Mexico’s delicacies is assorted, colourful, and bursting with taste, though when residing overseas most individuals no less than often take pleasure in having a ‘taste of home.’  Mexico presents loads of selection relating to searching for meals and different issues and along with a variety of open-air markets, huge model retailers, and finances shops, Mexico additionally presents specialist retail supermarkets that inventory fancy meals and items, together with imported objects that you just received’t discover elsewhere.

Applying for and managing your Mexico residency card
If you plan to use for the primary time (or re-apply), our information to making use of for residency in Mexico provides an in depth abstract of the method.  If you have already got your residency card, be taught concerning the renewal guidelines and course of for residency playing cards.  If your residency card has expired, learn this. If your card is misplaced or broken, learn this.

The Monarch butterflies return within the autumn
Mexico is host to the extraordinary Monarch Butterflies that migrate every year from the northern reaches of the continent to overwinter within the Oyamel fir tree forests located within the mountains west of Mexico City.  A go to to the butterfly sanctuaries is a spotlight of any go to to Mexico through the late autumn and winter months.  The butterflies start arriving in November, and go away in March. Peak viewing season is between mid-January and late February.  Our journey affiliate might help you to take advantage of your go to to see the butterflies this season.

Residency playing cards for minors
Mexico has particular guidelines for residency playing cards issued to minors—legally outlined as kids below the age of 18 years. The guidelines are described intimately on this article, though primarily:

• kids below 3 years of age are given short-term or everlasting residency playing cards for one yr at a time, and these have to be renewed in Mexico yearly; and
• kids between the ages of three and 17 years are issued with short-term or everlasting residency playing cards for a most of 4 years at a time and should renew them in Mexico; and additional notice that
• kids below 18 years of age holding everlasting residency playing cards should renew these as above. When they flip 18, their everlasting residency will change into indefinite and the cardboard will now not expire or must be renewed.

Wind storms and energy cuts
Months of seasonal change, notably across the spring and autumn, can convey sudden wind storms which may seem from nowhere and so they, coupled with torrential rainstorms, could cause native energy cuts.  Our article about coping with electrical energy cuts in Mexico shares insights and sensible recommendation.

Thinking a few transfer to Mexico?
Regardless of what stage you’re at in your pondering and planning a few potential transfer to Mexico, Mexperience lets you make thought-about decisions and knowledgeable choices about shifting right here, settling-in, and cultivating a fruitful and healthful way of life.  Start right here, with an introduction to our relocation and way of life guides and uncover our intensive articles that make it easier to discover choices and make thought-about decisions.

Selling a home in Mexico
There are necessary issues to take into accounts while you intend to promote your home in Mexico, together with the way to worth your own home, the way to market it to potential patrons, and the prices & taxes concerned.  The procedures for promoting a home are much like that of shopping for one, and also you should get acquainted with the position of the Notary Public and realty agent.

Comprehensive information to residing & life
Our intensive information to residing & life presents helpful insights while you’re exploring prospects for residing, working, retirement and cultivating your way of life in Mexico. Get sensible recommendation, incisive native data, and significant steering that lets you uncover alternatives, contemplate your decisions, make knowledgeable choices, and connect with useful sources. Our information to residing & life in Mexico is frequently up to date and, like all guides and articles on Mexperience, it’s utterly free to entry.

Summertime Leisure Tours in Mexico

Vibrant colours within the Copper Canyon
Summer is peak season within the canyons, because the rains convey progress, colour, perfume, and vibrancy to this most exceptional pure panorama. Take an extraordinary practice journey by way of Mexico’s Copper Canyon to expertise dramatic landscapes and take in breath-taking pure surroundings.

Plan forward for the autumn
For these planning forward to the autumn season, contemplate arranging your tour to see the Monarch butterflies—that may start to reach in Mexico throughout November.

Mexico Living Essentials

Guides and updates for on a regular basis residing & way of life in Mexico.

Roadcraft — Browse our intensive insights about driving & highway journeys in Mexico. Learn about being correctly insured for the journey.

Immigration & Residency — Mexperience publishes detailed and commonly up to date details about residency in Mexico.  Learn about the way to apply, and the way to handle your residency card and standing. Obtain tele-assistance or accompanied help to assist with the procedures and submitting.

House & Home — Our information to Mexico actual property is essentially the most complete you’ll discover. When you purchase or hire a house right here, study the way to hold it properly cared for with our articles about Home Stewardship.  Also learn to hold your dwelling areas adequately secured and correctly insured.

Health & Wellbeing — Read ideas & insights for well being and wellness in Mexico.  Learn about medical health insurance choices.  Get a quote for personal medical health insurance.

Money & Banking — Our full and commonly up to date information to cash and banking in Mexico lets you study Mexico’s peso, open and handle an area checking account, generate profits transfers, use financial institution playing cards, and take care of on a regular basis monetary issues in Mexico.

Discover More of Mexico

Mexperience accompanies you all through your journey.

When you’re on the lookout for a brand new way of life in Mexico, Mexperience is with you at each step—from these first key choices about shifting, to settling-in and cultivating a fruitful way of life on a regular basis.  And while you want time away for leisure and recreation, we make it easier to to find & organize significant leisure experiences.