CLIMATE OVERVIEW. Durango, Colorado, gets 19 inches of rain per year. The US average is 39. Snowfall is 79 inches. The average US city gets 26 inches of snow per year. The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 52.
Quick Answer. Most hummingbirds in America and Canada spend the winter in Mexico or South America before migrating to their breeding ground in southern U.S. as early as February or the first week of March. Some South American hummingbird species also travel north to the tropics during the southern winter.
As the ruby-throated hummingbird migrates southward, it averages about 23 miles per day.8 This sounds like a lot but is actually somewhat leisurely and not extreme for the bird. They are used to accumulating many miles every day while feeding on nearly 2,000 flowers.