Climate averages 1991–2020
Lagoa Santa weather
in January.
A warm, very wet month: the 4th 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 Lagoa Santa: daytime highs average 27.4°C and nights cool to about 19.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 188 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 11th 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 Vespasiano (7 km away). In January its highs average 27.8°C, about as warm as Lagoa Santa, with 188 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Lagoa Santa ranks joint 318th of 448 for the warmest January highs and joint 155th of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Lagoa Santa is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 188 mm to 103 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
Lagoa Santa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 27.4°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 188 | 16.6 | 13.213 h |
| February | 27.9°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 103 | 11.4 | 12.813 h |
| March | 27.1°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 121 | 14.4 | 12.212 h |
| April | 26.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 44 | 8.1 | 11.712 h |
| May | 24.9°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 26 | 4.1 | 11.211 h |
| June | 24.1°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 7.0 | 1.3 | 11.011 h |
| July | 24.2°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 3.5 | 0.6 | 11.111 h |
| August | 25.7°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 8.1 | 1.5 | 11.411 h |
| September | 27.6°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 40 | 5.6 | 12.012 h |
| October | 28.3°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 72 | 9.9 | 12.513 h |
| November | 26.7°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 167 | 17.2 | 13.013 h |
| December | 26.7°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 225 | 20.5 | 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
- Vespasiano in JanuaryBrazil · 7 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 19.7°C · 188 mm rain
- Santa Luzia in JanuaryBrazil · 16 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.4°C · 178 mm rain
- Ribeirão das Neves in JanuaryBrazil · 25 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 19.3°C · 188 mm rain
- Sabará in JanuaryBrazil · 30 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.6°C · 216 mm rain
- Belo Horizonte in JanuaryBrazil · 33 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.5°C · 218 mm rain
- Contagem in JanuaryBrazil · 37 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.3°C · 218 mm rain
- Nova Lima in JanuaryBrazil · 40 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.5°C · 216 mm rain
- Sete Lagoas in JanuaryBrazil · 41 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 19.6°C · 230 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 Lagoa Santa) is explained once on the Lagoa Santa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ribeirão das Neves and Vespasiano lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.