Climate averages 1991–2020
Recife weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Recife: daytime highs average 26.6°C and nights cool to about 22.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 51 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Camaragibe (12 km away). In August its highs average 26.7°C, about as warm as Recife, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Recife ranks joint 171st of 448 for the warmest August highs and joint 341st of 448 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 448 cities is 26.2°C; Recife is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 27.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 69 mm to 43 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
Recife climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.9°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 54 | 17.2 | 12.513 h |
| February | 30.0°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 61 | 16.6 | 12.412 h |
| March | 30.0°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 78 | 18.9 | 12.212 h |
| April | 29.3°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 103 | 20.6 | 11.912 h |
| May | 28.2°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 114 | 23.2 | 11.812 h |
| June | 27.1°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 130 | 23.5 | 11.712 h |
| July | 26.4°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 117 | 23.5 | 11.712 h |
| August, selected | 26.6°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 69 | 20.1 | 11.812 h |
| September | 27.6°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 43 | 15.5 | 12.112 h |
| October | 28.9°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 31 | 12.5 | 12.312 h |
| November | 29.6°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 25 | 10.8 | 12.512 h |
| December | 30.0°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 32 | 12.5 | 12.613 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
- Camaragibe in AugustBrazil · 12 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 21.7°C · 69 mm rain
- Paulista in AugustBrazil · 13 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 22.2°C · 82 mm rain
- Jaboatão dos Guararapes in AugustBrazil · 16 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 21.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Igarassu in AugustBrazil · 25 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 22.2°C · 58 mm rain
- Cabo de Santo Agostinho in AugustBrazil · 31 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 22.4°C · 103 mm rain
- Ipojuca in AugustBrazil · 43 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 21.7°C · 92 mm rain
- Vitória de Santo Antão in AugustBrazil · 46 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 20.4°C · 44 mm rain
- Carpina in AugustBrazil · 47 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 Recife) is explained once on the Recife year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Jaboatão dos Guararapes and Camaragibe lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.