Climate averages 1991–2020

Catalão weather
in January.

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.

Average high 27.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 19.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 267 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Catalão: daytime highs average 27.2°C and nights cool to about 19.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 267 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 05 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Araguari (59 km away). In January its highs average 26.7°C, 0.5°C cooler than Catalão, with 231 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Catalão ranks joint 339th of 448 for the warmest January highs and joint 348th of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Catalão is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 267 mm to 189 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

Catalão climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Catalão, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.2°C19.7°C	19.7°C	267	22.1	13.113 h
February	27.5°C19.7°C	19.7°C	189	18.2	12.713 h
March	27.1°C19.5°C	19.5°C	182	19.5	12.212 h
April	26.8°C18.4°C	18.4°C	63	9.5	11.712 h
May	25.8°C16.2°C	16.2°C	23	3.5	11.311 h
June	25.3°C14.8°C	14.8°C	7.7	1.4	11.111 h
July	25.5°C14.6°C	14.6°C	3.3	0.5	11.111 h
August	27.6°C16.0°C	16.0°C	7.0	1.4	11.512 h
September	29.7°C18.6°C	18.6°C	36	5.2	12.012 h
October	29.7°C19.9°C	19.9°C	91	12.6	12.512 h
November	27.4°C19.6°C	19.6°C	207	20.6	13.013 h
December	27.1°C19.7°C	19.7°C	252	24.0	13.213 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 Catalão

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 Catalão) is explained once on the Catalão year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.