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Lime season by country

Limes ship year-round from Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. What the calendar looks like month by month, and why the price moves anyway.

Peak supply May–November from Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. No origin on this page is at peak in December–April.

Lime export calendar: which origin ships in which month.
Origin January February March April May June July August September October November December
Mexico January: Shoulder February: Shoulder March: Shoulder April: Shoulder May: Peak June: Peak July: Peak August: Peak September: Peak October: Shoulder November: Shoulder December: Shoulder
Brazil January: Shoulder February: Shoulder March: Shoulder April: Shoulder May: Shoulder June: Shoulder July: Shoulder August: Peak September: Peak October: Peak November: Peak December: Shoulder
Colombia January: Shoulder February: Shoulder March: Shoulder April: Shoulder May: Peak June: Peak July: Peak August: Peak September: Peak October: Peak November: Shoulder December: Shoulder
Peak — shipping in volume Shoulder — opening or closing Export windows out of the origin, not arrival weeks. Add the lane's transit.

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

Persian limes leave Mexico, Colombia and Brazil every month of the year, so the calendar below shows availability rather than a season. Each origin has a peak — Mexico in the Northern Hemisphere summer, Brazil in the autumn when Mexican supply thins — but none of them ever really stops.

What moves is the price, not the supply. Lime markets are famously volatile: weather in Veracruz or Michoacán moves them within a week, and the Brazilian and Colombian windows exist commercially because they cover the months when that happens. An importer’s exposure here is to price rather than to a window closing.

Mexico

May–September peak · October–April shoulder Varieties: Persian Load ports: Manzanillo, Lázaro Cárdenas, and Veracruz

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.

Everything Mexico ships, month by month

Brazil

August–November peak · December–July shoulder Varieties: Tahiti Load ports: Pecém, Natal, Salvador, and Santos

Year-round from São Paulo state, with the export peak from about August to November — the months when Mexican supply thins and the price is worth the longer voyage to Europe.

Brazil is the origin European buyers turn to when the Mexican market spikes, so this window is really a commercial one rather than an agricultural one. The trees produce all year; the shipping follows the price.

Everything Brazil ships, month by month

Colombia

May–October peak · November–April shoulder Varieties: Tahití Load ports: Cartagena, Santa Marta, Turbo, and Buenaventura

Year-round with a peak through the middle of the year. Colombia is the third origin on the European lime shelf after Mexico and Brazil, and it is the closest of the three.

Limes travel well and the trade is priced on freight and market timing rather than on quality differences between origins, so the Colombian window is worth watching mostly for what it does to the price when Mexico has a bad month.

Everything Colombia ships, month by month

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