Climate averages 1991–2020
Recife weather
in January.
A hot, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Recife: daytime highs average 29.9°C and nights cool to about 24.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 54 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 32 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Camaragibe (12 km away). In January its highs average 30.1°C, about as warm as Recife, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Recife ranks joint 90th of 448 for the warmest January highs and joint 17th of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Recife is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 30.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 54 mm to 61 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Camaragibe in JanuaryBrazil · 12 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.0°C · 54 mm rain
- Paulista in JanuaryBrazil · 13 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.5°C · 53 mm rain
- Jaboatão dos Guararapes in JanuaryBrazil · 16 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.1°C · 54 mm rain
- Igarassu in JanuaryBrazil · 25 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 24.4°C · 56 mm rain
- Cabo de Santo Agostinho in JanuaryBrazil · 31 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 24.4°C · 67 mm rain
- Ipojuca in JanuaryBrazil · 43 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.0°C · 60 mm rain
- Vitória de Santo Antão in JanuaryBrazil · 46 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 22.9°C · 49 mm rain
- Carpina in JanuaryBrazil · 47 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.5°C · 50 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.