Climate averages 1991–2020
Palmas weather
in April.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a hot month in Palmas: daytime highs average 30.4°C and nights cool to about 22.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 192 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes April a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 53 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gurupi (192 km away). In April its highs average 30.3°C, about as warm as Palmas, with 135 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Palmas ranks joint 12th of 448 for the warmest April highs and 392nd of 448 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 448 cities is 27.0°C; Palmas is 3.5°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 31.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 192 mm to 55 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Palmas climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.8°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 354 | 27.1 | 12.613 h |
| February | 29.9°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 318 | 25.2 | 12.412 h |
| March | 29.9°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 313 | 26.7 | 12.212 h |
| April, selected | 30.4°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 192 | 18.8 | 11.912 h |
| May | 31.6°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 55 | 7.1 | 11.712 h |
| June | 32.4°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 2.5 | 0.4 | 11.512 h |
| July | 32.8°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 11.612 h |
| August | 34.4°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 11.812 h |
| September | 35.4°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 25 | 3.5 | 12.012 h |
| October | 33.3°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 129 | 15.5 | 12.312 h |
| November | 30.9°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 248 | 21.6 | 12.613 h |
| December | 30.4°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 297 | 25.0 | 12.713 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
April in nearby cities
- Gurupi in AprilBrazil · 192 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 22.8°C · 135 mm rain
- Redenção in AprilBrazil · 303 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.3°C · 202 mm rain
- Araguaína in AprilBrazil · 331 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.2°C · 198 mm rain
- Luis Eduardo Magalhães in AprilBrazil · 350 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 19.7°C · 78 mm rain
- Balsas in AprilBrazil · 386 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.3°C · 110 mm rain
- Barreiras in AprilBrazil · 426 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 21.6°C · 68 mm rain
- Parauapebas in AprilBrazil · 488 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 22.6°C · 189 mm rain
- Imperatriz in AprilBrazil · 524 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 23.1°C · 150 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 Palmas) is explained once on the Palmas year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.