Atlixco is a rapily growing city and its surrounding municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla. It is located only 24 km south of the city of Puebla, yet is 300 meters lower in altitude, at 1840 m. This drop in altitude causes a noticeable change in the weather of the city compared to the surrounding regions of the "Sierra Nevada" (literally "Snowy Mountains"). This makes Atlixco renowned for its benign climate, which varies by only a few degrees Celsius year round.