Climate averages 1991–2020

Salvador weather
in January.

A hot, moderately wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 59 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Salvador: daytime highs average 28.4°C and nights cool to about 24.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 59 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 48 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lauro de Freitas (20 km away). In January its highs average 28.9°C, about as warm as Salvador, with 55 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Salvador ranks joint 233rd of 448 for the warmest January highs and joint 30th of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Salvador is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 59 mm to 62 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Salvador climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Salvador, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.4°C24.8°C	24.8°C	59	12.4	12.813 h
February	28.5°C25.0°C	25.0°C	62	14.5	12.513 h
March	28.5°C25.0°C	25.0°C	91	17.8	12.212 h
April	27.5°C24.5°C	24.5°C	158	22.3	11.812 h
May	26.4°C23.7°C	23.7°C	186	22.8	11.512 h
June	25.4°C22.9°C	22.9°C	150	22.9	11.411 h
July	24.8°C22.2°C	22.2°C	116	21.9	11.411 h
August	24.8°C22.1°C	22.1°C	81	19.8	11.712 h
September	25.7°C22.6°C	22.6°C	64	14.6	12.012 h
October	26.9°C23.5°C	23.5°C	58	10.9	12.412 h
November	27.8°C24.1°C	24.1°C	64	10.6	12.713 h
December	28.4°C24.7°C	24.7°C	40	9.6	12.913 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

Distance from Salvador

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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 Salvador) is explained once on the Salvador year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.