Climate averages 1991–2020
Belo Horizonte weather
in December.
A warm, very wet month: the 6th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a warm month in Belo Horizonte: daytime highs average 26.1°C and nights cool to about 18.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 260 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes December a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 18 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nova Lima (12 km away). In December its highs average 27.0°C, 0.8°C warmer than Belo Horizonte, with 265 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Belo Horizonte ranks joint 384th of 448 for the warmest December highs and joint 405th of 448 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Belo Horizonte is 2.3°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 26.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 260 mm to 218 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Belo Horizonte climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.7°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 218 | 18.0 | 13.213 h |
| February | 27.3°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 120 | 13.0 | 12.813 h |
| March | 26.5°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 147 | 16.8 | 12.212 h |
| April | 25.7°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 55 | 9.8 | 11.712 h |
| May | 24.1°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 31 | 5.0 | 11.211 h |
| June | 23.3°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 9.7 | 1.7 | 10.911 h |
| July | 23.5°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 4.7 | 0.8 | 11.011 h |
| August | 25.0°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 11 | 2.0 | 11.411 h |
| September | 26.7°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 47 | 6.5 | 12.012 h |
| October | 27.4°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 81 | 11.6 | 12.513 h |
| November | 26.0°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 184 | 18.2 | 13.013 h |
| December, selected | 26.1°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 260 | 22.0 | 13.313 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
December in nearby cities
- Nova Lima in DecemberBrazil · 12 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 19.4°C · 265 mm rain
- Contagem in DecemberBrazil · 12 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 18.1°C · 260 mm rain
- Sabará in DecemberBrazil · 14 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.4°C · 265 mm rain
- Ibirité in DecemberBrazil · 17 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.5°C · 260 mm rain
- Santa Luzia in DecemberBrazil · 19 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 19.1°C · 217 mm rain
- Ribeirão das Neves in DecemberBrazil · 23 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 19.0°C · 225 mm rain
- Vespasiano in DecemberBrazil · 25 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 19.5°C · 225 mm rain
- Betim in DecemberBrazil · 28 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 18.5°C · 272 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 Belo Horizonte) is explained once on the Belo Horizonte year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Contagem and Ibirité lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.