Climate averages 1991–2020
Natal weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Natal: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 22.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 51 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Parnamirim (15 km away). In August its highs average 27.5°C, about as warm as Natal, with 32 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Natal ranks joint 147th of 448 for the warmest August highs and joint 308th of 448 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 448 cities is 26.2°C; Natal is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 51 mm to 31 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Natal climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.4°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 75 | 19.1 | 12.412 h |
| February | 29.4°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 102 | 19.4 | 12.312 h |
| March | 29.2°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 150 | 23.3 | 12.112 h |
| April | 28.7°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 183 | 24.4 | 12.012 h |
| May | 28.4°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 148 | 22.3 | 11.912 h |
| June | 27.3°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 155 | 21.9 | 11.812 h |
| July | 26.8°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 130 | 21.0 | 11.812 h |
| August, selected | 27.3°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 51 | 15.1 | 11.912 h |
| September | 28.1°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 31 | 11.5 | 12.112 h |
| October | 28.9°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 24 | 10.3 | 12.212 h |
| November | 29.3°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 25 | 10.5 | 12.412 h |
| December | 29.5°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 40 | 14.8 | 12.512 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
August in nearby cities
- Parnamirim in AugustBrazil · 15 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 22.4°C · 32 mm rain
- Macaíba in AugustBrazil · 17 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 22.3°C · 51 mm rain
- Ceará-Mirim in AugustBrazil · 30 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 22.4°C · 21 mm rain
- Santa Rita in AugustBrazil · 149 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 22.2°C · 54 mm rain
- João Pessoa in AugustBrazil · 152 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 22.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Campina Grande in AugustBrazil · 176 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.6°C · 23 mm rain
- Goiana in AugustBrazil · 198 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 21.8°C · 56 mm rain
- Carpina in AugustBrazil · 229 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 20.0°C · 45 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 Natal) is explained once on the Natal year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Macaíba lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.