Climate averages 1991–2020

Jaboatão dos Guararapes weather
in December.

A hot, fairly dry month: one of the warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.7°C Daytime mean, December
Average low 24.0°C Night-time mean, December
Rainfall 32 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Jaboatão dos Guararapes · average highYear overview

December is a hot month in Jaboatão dos Guararapes: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 24.0°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.

Expect about 32 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 35 min on an average December day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Camaragibe (11 km away). In December its highs average 30.2°C, about as warm as Jaboatão dos Guararapes, with 32 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Jaboatão dos Guararapes ranks joint 120th of 448 for the warmest December highs and joint 38th of 448 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Jaboatão dos Guararapes is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.

From December to January, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 29.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 32 mm to 54 mm.

The annual picture

December in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 1520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Jaboatão dos Guararapes climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Jaboatão dos Guararapes, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 29.6°C24.1°C24.1°C5417.212.513 h
February 29.7°C24.3°C24.3°C6116.612.412 h
March 29.7°C24.3°C24.3°C7818.912.212 h
April 29.0°C24.0°C24.0°C10320.611.912 h
May 28.0°C23.5°C23.5°C11423.211.712 h
June 26.9°C22.7°C22.7°C13023.511.712 h
July 26.2°C22.1°C22.1°C11723.511.712 h
August 26.3°C21.8°C21.8°C6920.111.812 h
September 27.2°C22.3°C22.3°C4315.512.112 h
October 28.5°C23.1°C23.1°C3112.512.312 h
November 29.3°C23.6°C23.6°C2510.812.512 h
December, selected 29.7°C24.0°C24.0°C3212.512.613 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

Distance from Jaboatão dos Guararapes

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 Jaboatão dos Guararapes) is explained once on the Jaboatão dos Guararapes year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Recife and Camaragibe lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.