Climate averages 1991–2020
Santa Luzia weather
in January.
A warm, wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Santa Luzia: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 19.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 178 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 11 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Vespasiano (11 km away). In January its highs average 27.8°C, about as warm as Santa Luzia, with 188 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Santa Luzia ranks joint 303rd of 448 for the warmest January highs and joint 143rd of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Santa Luzia is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 28.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 178 mm to 100 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
Santa Luzia climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 27.5°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 178 | 17.2 | 13.213 h |
| February | 28.0°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 100 | 11.7 | 12.813 h |
| March | 27.3°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 121 | 15.3 | 12.212 h |
| April | 26.5°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 47 | 8.8 | 11.712 h |
| May | 24.9°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 24 | 4.5 | 11.211 h |
| June | 24.1°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 6.9 | 1.5 | 11.011 h |
| July | 24.3°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 3.5 | 0.6 | 11.111 h |
| August | 25.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 8.6 | 1.8 | 11.411 h |
| September | 27.5°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 38 | 5.4 | 12.012 h |
| October | 28.1°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 69 | 10.2 | 12.513 h |
| November | 26.7°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 165 | 17.7 | 13.013 h |
| December | 26.8°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 217 | 20.9 | 13.313 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
- Vespasiano in JanuaryBrazil · 11 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 19.7°C · 188 mm rain
- Sabará in JanuaryBrazil · 14 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.6°C · 216 mm rain
- Lagoa Santa in JanuaryBrazil · 16 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 19.0°C · 188 mm rain
- Belo Horizonte in JanuaryBrazil · 19 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.5°C · 218 mm rain
- Nova Lima in JanuaryBrazil · 24 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.5°C · 216 mm rain
- Ribeirão das Neves in JanuaryBrazil · 25 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 19.3°C · 188 mm rain
- Contagem in JanuaryBrazil · 28 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.3°C · 218 mm rain
- Ibirité in JanuaryBrazil · 35 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.7°C · 218 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 Santa Luzia) is explained once on the Santa Luzia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.