Climate averages 1991–2020
Barra da Tijuca weather
in January.
A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Barra da Tijuca: daytime highs average 31.2°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 170 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 22 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rio de Janeiro (21 km away). In January its highs average 30.7°C, 0.5°C cooler than Barra da Tijuca, with 170 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Barra da Tijuca ranks joint 24th of 448 for the warmest January highs and joint 132nd of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Barra da Tijuca is 2.7°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 31.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 170 mm to 118 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Barra da Tijuca climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 31.2°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 170 | 16.4 | 13.413 h |
| February | 31.7°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 118 | 13.3 | 12.913 h |
| March | 30.1°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 145 | 16.7 | 12.212 h |
| April | 28.5°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 88 | 12.0 | 11.612 h |
| May | 26.2°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 76 | 11.1 | 11.011 h |
| June | 25.8°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 48 | 7.3 | 10.711 h |
| July | 25.5°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 51 | 7.9 | 10.911 h |
| August | 26.5°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 41 | 7.5 | 11.311 h |
| September | 27.5°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 75 | 10.5 | 11.912 h |
| October | 28.5°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 92 | 11.7 | 12.613 h |
| November | 28.6°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 139 | 15.8 | 13.213 h |
| December | 30.2°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 151 | 16.2 | 13.514 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
- Rio de Janeiro in JanuaryBrazil · 21 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 23.5°C · 170 mm rain
- Duque de Caxias in JanuaryBrazil · 24 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 23.2°C · 265 mm rain
- Belford Roxo in JanuaryBrazil · 26 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 23.4°C · 235 mm rain
- Nova Iguaçu in JanuaryBrazil · 28 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 235 mm rain
- Queimados in JanuaryBrazil · 37 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 22.6°C · 235 mm rain
- São Gonçalo in JanuaryBrazil · 37 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 23.0°C · 244 mm rain
- Itaguaí in JanuaryBrazil · 45 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.6°C · 273 mm rain
- Seropédica in JanuaryBrazil · 45 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 22.6°C · 273 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Barra da Tijuca) is explained once on the Barra da Tijuca year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Rio de Janeiro lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.