Climate averages 1991–2020

Itabira weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 26.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 18.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 227 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Itabira: daytime highs average 26.8°C and nights cool to about 18.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 227 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 10 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is João Monlevade (22 km away). In January its highs average 27.3°C, about as warm as Itabira, with 214 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Itabira ranks joint 360th of 448 for the warmest January highs and joint 227th of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Itabira is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 227 mm to 141 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

Itabira climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Itabira, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.8°C18.9°C	18.9°C	227	16.7	13.213 h
February	27.2°C18.9°C	18.9°C	141	12.4	12.813 h
March	26.3°C18.6°C	18.6°C	158	16.2	12.212 h
April	25.0°C17.5°C	17.5°C	76	11.2	11.712 h
May	23.1°C15.0°C	15.0°C	32	6.0	11.211 h
June	22.4°C13.9°C	13.9°C	12	2.8	11.011 h
July	22.5°C13.3°C	13.3°C	6.3	1.7	11.111 h
August	23.9°C13.7°C	13.7°C	12	2.9	11.411 h
September	25.8°C15.5°C	15.5°C	48	7.2	12.012 h
October	26.5°C17.3°C	17.3°C	100	11.3	12.513 h
November	25.4°C18.0°C	18.0°C	232	19.2	13.013 h
December	26.2°C18.7°C	18.7°C	287	20.9	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

Distance from Itabira

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