- Climate
- Less warm than typical tropical Chiapas municipalities because of its altitude; mostly semi-warm humid with year-round rain, mean annual temperature 14-20°C, average annual rainfall 2,000-3,000 mm.
- Terrain
- Settled high in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas; about 90% of the municipality's territory is rugged.
- Varieties
- Sarchimor
- Base process
- Washed
While most Chiapas coffee is grown in the Soconusco, Chenalhó is named among the other coffee-growing municipalities (with Oxchuc, Pantheló, El Bosque, Tenejapa, Larráinzar and Chalchihuitán), with around six thousand producers between them.