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Mexico mango export season

Mango season in Mexico: March–July, with February and August at the shoulders. Lands March–August via Mexico → Rotterdam.

Ships
March–July
February, August at the shoulders
Lands
week 11–34
on the Mexico → Rotterdam run, 15–21 days
Mexico mangos: the export window by month, and the weeks each lane lands it.
Stage Month
Ships out of Mexico Ships march–july peak · february, august shoulder
Mexico → Rotterdam 15–21 days · week 11–34 Lands week 11–34 on the Mexico → Rotterdam run
Peak Shoulder Landing Port to port, across services rather than one schedule. Add the road leg at either end.

Varieties Ataulfo, Kent, Tommy Atkins Load ports Manzanillo, Lázaro Cárdenas, and Veracruz

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

The south opens the season in the first weeks of the year and peaks through April. By the end of April, Chiapas and Oaxaca are winding down, Michoacán is shipping and Nayarit bridges the gap to northern Sinaloa. Nayarit and Sinaloa grow most of the crop. In 2026 northern Sinaloa shipped from the end of May into early September, so August is a full month of fruit in a normal year rather than a tail.

Last season Tommy Atkins was 40% of Mexican shipments, Ataulfo 28%, Kent 22% and Keitt 7%. The mix changes through the year. Ataulfo is the early, southern fruit; Kent and Keitt are the late varieties out of Nayarit and Sinaloa, and Keitt is most of what closes the season.

More than 80% goes to the United States, 12% to Canada and 1% to Japan; Europe and a dozen smaller markets share the rest. The US rules decide how the fruit is handled. Outside the fruit-fly-free zone, every mango for the US is dipped in water held at 46.1°C for over an hour, longer for bigger fruit, in plants approved by APHIS. Northern Sinaloa has been recognised as fruit-fly free since 2003 and ships without the dip. Japan requires vapour heat treatment.

The dip is also where quality problems start, because an overdone treatment scalds the fruit. UC Davis gives 13°C for mature-green mangoes and 10°C for ripening ones. At 13°C the fruit keeps two to four weeks in air and three to six in a controlled atmosphere. That is what makes a sea programme to Europe possible at all.

Winter weather sets the size of the season. In 2026 a warm winter left trees putting out leaves instead of flowers, drought in Sinaloa cut fruit size, and Nayarit started in early June rather than mid-to-late May. The National Mango Board expected the season to finish about 13% smaller than 2025.

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.

Sources

Last reviewed August 2026. Editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule. Weather moves them, sometimes by weeks.

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