Climate averages 1991–2020

Jacobina weather
in January.

A hot, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 30.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 81 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Jacobina: daytime highs average 30.0°C and nights cool to about 21.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.

Expect about 81 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 42 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Campo Formoso (78 km away). In January its highs average 29.5°C, about as warm as Jacobina, with 77 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Jacobina ranks joint 83rd of 448 for the warmest January highs and joint 53rd of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Jacobina is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs stay level at 30.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 81 mm to 61 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

Jacobina climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Jacobina, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	30.0°C21.2°C	21.2°C	81	11.1	12.713 h
February	30.0°C21.4°C	21.4°C	61	12.0	12.512 h
March	29.9°C21.4°C	21.4°C	74	14.0	12.212 h
April	28.4°C21.0°C	21.0°C	55	15.0	11.912 h
May	26.5°C19.9°C	19.9°C	49	13.9	11.612 h
June	24.8°C18.8°C	18.8°C	49	16.1	11.511 h
July	24.2°C17.7°C	17.7°C	46	15.9	11.512 h
August	24.8°C17.5°C	17.5°C	44	14.7	11.712 h
September	27.2°C18.3°C	18.3°C	29	10.1	12.012 h
October	29.5°C19.7°C	19.7°C	32	6.7	12.312 h
November	29.7°C20.6°C	20.6°C	68	9.4	12.613 h
December	29.9°C21.0°C	21.0°C	65	8.9	12.813 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 Jacobina

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