Climate averages 1991–2020

Barbacena weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 24.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 16.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 291 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Barbacena: daytime highs average 24.5°C and nights cool to about 16.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 291 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 16 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is São João del Rei (52 km away). In January its highs average 26.3°C, 1.8°C warmer than Barbacena, with 228 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Barbacena ranks joint 443rd of 448 for the warmest January highs and 408th of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Barbacena is 4.0°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 25.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 291 mm to 188 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Barbacena climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Barbacena, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	24.5°C16.9°C	16.9°C	291	21.6	13.313 h
February	25.0°C16.9°C	16.9°C	188	16.8	12.813 h
March	24.0°C16.5°C	16.5°C	202	20.5	12.212 h
April	22.7°C15.0°C	15.0°C	82	12.1	11.612 h
May	20.6°C12.3°C	12.3°C	44	7.3	11.111 h
June	20.1°C11.0°C	11.0°C	20	3.6	10.911 h
July	20.0°C10.5°C	10.5°C	16	3.6	11.011 h
August	21.4°C11.1°C	11.1°C	26	4.7	11.411 h
September	22.8°C12.8°C	12.8°C	77	9.4	12.012 h
October	23.4°C14.5°C	14.5°C	133	15.2	12.613 h
November	22.9°C15.3°C	15.3°C	249	21.3	13.113 h
December	24.0°C16.5°C	16.5°C	306	24.2	13.413 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Barbacena

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Barbacena) is explained once on the Barbacena year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.