Season calendar

Mexico fresh produce export calendar

When Mexico ships avocados, limes, mangoes, berries, grapes and asparagus, month by month, and which of it moves by sea rather than by truck.

Load ports: Manzanillo, Lázaro Cárdenas, and Veracruz
Produce covered: Avocado Lime Mango Raspberry Table grapes Asparagus

Peak — shipping in volume Shoulder — opening or closing Export windows out of the origin, not arrival weeks. Add the lane's transit.

Mexico fresh produce export calendar: which produce ships in which month.
Produce	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Avocado October–March peak · April–September shoulder	January: Peak	February: Peak	March: Peak	April: Shoulder	May: Shoulder	June: Shoulder	July: Shoulder	August: Shoulder	September: Shoulder	October: Peak	November: Peak	December: Peak
Lime May–September peak · October–April shoulder	January: Shoulder	February: Shoulder	March: Shoulder	April: Shoulder	May: Peak	June: Peak	July: Peak	August: Peak	September: Peak	October: Shoulder	November: Shoulder	December: Shoulder
Mango March–July peak · February, August shoulder	January: Not shipping	February: Shoulder	March: Peak	April: Peak	May: Peak	June: Peak	July: Peak	August: Shoulder	September: Not shipping	October: Not shipping	November: Not shipping	December: Not shipping
Raspberry November–April peak · May, October shoulder	January: Peak	February: Peak	March: Peak	April: Peak	May: Shoulder	June: Not shipping	July: Not shipping	August: Not shipping	September: Not shipping	October: Shoulder	November: Peak	December: Peak
Table grapes May–July peak · April, August shoulder	January: Not shipping	February: Not shipping	March: Not shipping	April: Shoulder	May: Peak	June: Peak	July: Peak	August: Shoulder	September: Not shipping	October: Not shipping	November: Not shipping	December: Not shipping
Asparagus February–April peak · January, May shoulder	January: Shoulder	February: Peak	March: Peak	April: Peak	May: Shoulder	June: Not shipping	July: Not shipping	August: Not shipping	September: Not shipping	October: Not shipping	November: Not shipping	December: Not shipping

Last reviewed August 2026. Windows are editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule, and they are export weeks out of Mexico rather than arrival weeks in your market.

Mexico is the origin where the calendar matters least and the routing matters most. Avocados and limes ship close to year-round rather than in a season, so the question an importer is really asking is not “is it available” but “which window is cheap, and which is the one everybody else is buying in too”.

It is also the origin where most volume never touches a container. The overwhelming share of Mexican produce reaches the United States by truck across the land border; what leaves by sea is the volume going to Europe, Japan and increasingly China, out of Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas on the Pacific side and Veracruz on the Gulf. The windows below are the export windows for the crop, and they apply whichever way the fruit travels — but if you are importing into Europe, the sea programme is a subset of what the crop calendar shows.

Avocado

October–March peak · April–September shoulder Varieties: Hass

Effectively year-round. The main Michoacán crop peaks from about October to March, and the flor loca — the off-bloom crop — carries the middle of the year at lower volume.

Mexico is the reason there is no global avocado season. It also means that when Peru’s window opens in April, European buyers are choosing between origins on price rather than on availability, which is not true of most produce on this page.

Avocado season across every origin

Lime

May–September peak · October–April shoulder Varieties: Persian

Year-round, peaking through the Northern Hemisphere summer when the trees produce most and demand is highest at the same time.

Availability is not the risk on limes; price is. Weather in Veracruz or Michoacán moves the market inside a week, and a programme priced in March can look very different by July.

Lime season across every origin

Mango

March–July peak · February, August shoulder Varieties: Ataulfo, Kent, Tommy Atkins

Roughly March to July, moving north through the growing regions as the season progresses — Chiapas first, Sinaloa last. Ataulfo is the variety Mexico is known for; Kent and Tommy Atkins carry the export volume.

The window picks up almost exactly where Peru’s and Ecuador’s finish, which is what lets a buyer run a mango programme across the whole year with three origins.

Mango season across every origin

Raspberry

November–April peak · May, October shoulder

Roughly November to April out of Jalisco and Michoacán, counter-season to Northern Hemisphere production. Blackberries and strawberries run on much the same calendar.

Almost none of this moves by sea. Soft berries have a shelf life measured in days, so the volume goes by air or by truck into the United States; a sea programme exists but is small and demands everything go right.

Raspberry season across every origin

Table grapes

May–July peak · April, August shoulder Varieties: Flame, Sugraone

Roughly May to July out of Sonora, a short Northern Hemisphere window that lands between the end of the Chilean programme and the start of the Californian one.

Most of it crosses the land border rather than sailing. What does ship by sea goes to Asia rather than Europe, where Chile and Peru already cover the calendar.

Table grapes season across every origin

Asparagus

February–April peak · January, May shoulder

Roughly February to May out of Caborca in Sonora, a short northern window that fills the months when Peruvian volume is at its lowest.

Most of it trucks north rather than sailing or flying, which is the advantage of the window: the freight question Peru argues about does not really arise here.

Asparagus season across every origin

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