Climate averages 1991–2020
Belo Horizonte weather
in January.
A warm, very wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Belo Horizonte: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 18.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 218 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 11 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nova Lima (12 km away). In January its highs average 27.5°C, 0.8°C warmer than Belo Horizonte, with 216 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Belo Horizonte ranks joint 366th of 448 for the warmest January highs and joint 200th of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Belo Horizonte is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 218 mm to 120 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
Belo Horizonte climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Nova Lima in JanuaryBrazil · 12 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.5°C · 216 mm rain
- Contagem in JanuaryBrazil · 12 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.3°C · 218 mm rain
- Sabará in JanuaryBrazil · 14 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.6°C · 216 mm rain
- Ibirité in JanuaryBrazil · 17 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.7°C · 218 mm rain
- Santa Luzia in JanuaryBrazil · 19 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.4°C · 178 mm rain
- Ribeirão das Neves in JanuaryBrazil · 23 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 19.3°C · 188 mm rain
- Vespasiano in JanuaryBrazil · 25 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 19.7°C · 188 mm rain
- Betim in JanuaryBrazil · 28 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 18.7°C · 233 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.