Climate averages 1991–2020

Pará de Minas weather
in December.

A warm, very wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 26.8°C Daytime mean, December
Average low 19.3°C Night-time mean, December
Rainfall 246 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Pará de Minas · average highYear overview

December is a warm month in Pará de Minas: daytime highs average 26.8°C and nights cool to about 19.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 246 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes December a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 18 min on an average December day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Itaúna (24 km away). In December its highs average 26.5°C, about as warm as Pará de Minas, with 261 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Pará de Minas ranks joint 336th of 448 for the warmest December highs and joint 381st of 448 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Pará de Minas is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.

From December to January, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 246 mm to 219 mm.

The annual picture

December in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Pará de Minas climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Pará de Minas, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 27.3°C19.6°C19.6°C21918.113.213 h
February 27.8°C19.6°C19.6°C12713.112.813 h
March 27.1°C19.1°C19.1°C15016.212.212 h
April 26.3°C17.7°C17.7°C559.311.712 h
May 24.6°C15.1°C15.1°C284.411.211 h
June 24.0°C13.6°C13.6°C8.21.411.011 h
July 24.4°C13.4°C13.4°C4.20.811.011 h
August 26.1°C14.6°C14.6°C9.31.711.411 h
September 27.9°C16.8°C16.8°C436.012.012 h
October 28.4°C18.6°C18.6°C8311.012.513 h
November 26.8°C18.8°C18.8°C18618.413.013 h
December, selected 26.8°C19.3°C19.3°C24621.713.313 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

December in nearby cities

Distance from Pará de Minas

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 Pará de Minas) is explained once on the Pará de Minas year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.