Climate averages 1991–2020
São José (Santa Catarina, 28.21°S 49.16°W), Brazil weather
in January.
A warm, very wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in São José (Santa Catarina, 28.21°S 49.16°W), Brazil: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 19.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 314 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 43 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tubarão (32 km away). In January its highs average 27.9°C, 0.6°C warmer than São José (Santa Catarina, 28.21°S 49.16°W), Brazil, with 129 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, São José (Santa Catarina, 28.21°S 49.16°W), Brazil ranks joint 327th of 448 for the warmest January highs and 427th of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; São José (Santa Catarina, 28.21°S 49.16°W), Brazil is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 314 mm to 282 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
São José (Santa Catarina, 28.21°S 49.16°W), Brazil climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 27.3°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 314 | 22.9 | 13.714 h |
| February | 27.2°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 282 | 21.5 | 13.113 h |
| March | 26.2°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 198 | 20.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 24.4°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 120 | 13.0 | 11.411 h |
| May | 21.3°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 133 | 11.7 | 10.711 h |
| June | 19.9°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 98 | 9.8 | 10.410 h |
| July | 19.5°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 87 | 10.0 | 10.511 h |
| August | 21.1°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 98 | 9.7 | 11.111 h |
| September | 21.7°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 141 | 13.8 | 11.912 h |
| October | 23.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 166 | 17.4 | 12.713 h |
| November | 24.8°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 193 | 17.2 | 13.513 h |
| December | 26.9°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 226 | 19.4 | 13.914 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
- Tubarão in JanuaryBrazil · 32 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 21.7°C · 129 mm rain
- Criciúma in JanuaryBrazil · 55 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 20.0°C · 169 mm rain
- Palhoça in JanuaryBrazil · 80 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 21.6°C · 241 mm rain
- São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil in JanuaryBrazil · 85 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 21.9°C · 234 mm rain
- Araranguá in JanuaryBrazil · 87 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 20.5°C · 189 mm rain
- Florianópolis in JanuaryBrazil · 91 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 22.3°C · 181 mm rain
- Rio do Sul in JanuaryBrazil · 121 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 20.0°C · 184 mm rain
- Lages in JanuaryBrazil · 122 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 16.7°C · 194 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 São José) is explained once on the São José (Santa Catarina, 28.21°S 49.16°W), Brazil year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.