Climate averages 1991–2020

Poços de Caldas weather
in August.

A warm, fairly dry month: the 9th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 23.0°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 11.9°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 29 mm 4 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Poços de Caldas · average highYear overview

August is a warm month in Poços de Caldas: daytime highs average 23.0°C and nights cool to about 11.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 29 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 22 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is São João da Boa Vista (32 km away). In August its highs average 25.8°C, 2.8°C warmer than Poços de Caldas, with 26 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Poços de Caldas ranks joint 357th of 448 for the warmest August highs and joint 188th of 448 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 448 cities is 26.2°C; Poços de Caldas is 3.1°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 29 mm to 92 mm.

The annual picture

August 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. 51015202530 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 3500

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

Every month, side by side

Poços de Caldas climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Poços de Caldas, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 24.9°C17.7°C17.7°C33825.213.313 h
February 25.1°C17.6°C17.6°C25020.912.813 h
March 24.4°C17.0°C17.0°C21621.412.212 h
April 23.5°C15.2°C15.2°C8811.211.612 h
May 21.3°C12.4°C12.4°C627.111.111 h
June 20.7°C11.2°C11.2°C314.210.811 h
July 20.9°C10.8°C10.8°C263.410.911 h
August, selected 23.0°C11.9°C11.9°C294.111.411 h
September 24.9°C14.4°C14.4°C929.412.012 h
October 25.3°C16.0°C16.0°C14915.912.613 h
November 24.4°C16.5°C16.5°C23820.913.113 h
December 24.7°C17.4°C17.4°C30825.213.413 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

Distance from Poços de Caldas

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