Climate averages 1991–2020
Rio de Janeiro weather
in February.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a hot month in Rio de Janeiro: daytime highs average 31.2°C and nights cool to about 23.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 118 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes February a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 52 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is São Gonçalo (16 km away). In February its highs average 30.5°C, 0.7°C cooler than Rio de Janeiro, with 183 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro ranks joint 26th of 448 for the warmest February highs and joint 98th of 448 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Rio de Janeiro is 2.6°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 29.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 118 mm to 145 mm.
The annual picture
February 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
Rio de Janeiro climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.7°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 170 | 16.4 | 13.413 h |
| February, selected | 31.2°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 118 | 13.3 | 12.913 h |
| March | 29.6°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 145 | 16.7 | 12.212 h |
| April | 28.0°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 88 | 12.0 | 11.612 h |
| May | 25.6°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 76 | 11.1 | 11.011 h |
| June | 25.2°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 48 | 7.3 | 10.811 h |
| July | 24.9°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 51 | 7.9 | 10.911 h |
| August | 25.9°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 41 | 7.5 | 11.311 h |
| September | 26.8°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 75 | 10.5 | 11.912 h |
| October | 28.0°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 92 | 11.7 | 12.613 h |
| November | 28.0°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 139 | 15.8 | 13.213 h |
| December | 29.7°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 151 | 16.2 | 13.514 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
February in nearby cities
- São Gonçalo in FebruaryBrazil · 16 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.1°C · 183 mm rain
- Duque de Caxias in FebruaryBrazil · 19 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 23.3°C · 200 mm rain
- Barra da Tijuca in FebruaryBrazil · 21 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.0°C · 118 mm rain
- Belford Roxo in FebruaryBrazil · 27 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 23.4°C · 170 mm rain
- Magé in FebruaryBrazil · 32 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 22.7°C · 183 mm rain
- Nova Iguaçu in FebruaryBrazil · 32 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 23.2°C · 170 mm rain
- Maricá in FebruaryBrazil · 37 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 24.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Itaboraí in FebruaryBrazil · 38 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 22.5°C · 203 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 Rio de Janeiro) is explained once on the Rio de Janeiro year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Barra da Tijuca lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.