Climate averages 1991–2020

Palhoça weather
in January.

A warm, very 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 27.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 241 mm 23 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Palhoça: daytime highs average 27.8°C and nights cool to about 21.6°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.

Expect about 241 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 40 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil (5 km away). In January its highs average 27.7°C, about as warm as Palhoça, with 234 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Palhoça ranks joint 281st of 448 for the warmest January highs and 287th of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Palhoça is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs stay level at 27.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 241 mm to 221 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

Palhoça climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Palhoça, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.8°C21.6°C	21.6°C	241	22.5	13.714 h
February	27.8°C21.8°C	21.8°C	221	20.9	13.113 h
March	26.9°C20.8°C	20.8°C	157	20.3	12.312 h
April	25.2°C18.6°C	18.6°C	100	12.5	11.511 h
May	22.2°C15.5°C	15.5°C	119	11.0	10.811 h
June	20.6°C13.4°C	13.4°C	96	9.3	10.410 h
July	19.9°C12.5°C	12.5°C	88	9.6	10.611 h
August	20.9°C13.3°C	13.3°C	89	9.2	11.111 h
September	21.6°C15.1°C	15.1°C	147	13.3	11.912 h
October	23.3°C17.1°C	17.1°C	145	15.8	12.713 h
November	24.8°C18.5°C	18.5°C	154	16.2	13.513 h
December	27.0°C20.4°C	20.4°C	169	18.7	13.914 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 Palhoça

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