Climate averages 1991–2020

Saquarema weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 120 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Saquarema: daytime highs average 28.3°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 120 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 22 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Araruama (13 km away). In January its highs average 27.5°C, 0.8°C cooler than Saquarema, with 178 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Saquarema ranks joint 248th of 448 for the warmest January highs and joint 89th of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Saquarema is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 28.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 120 mm to 82 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

Saquarema climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Saquarema, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.3°C23.5°C	23.5°C	120	11.5	13.413 h
February	28.8°C23.8°C	23.8°C	82	9.1	12.913 h
March	27.7°C23.3°C	23.3°C	126	14.2	12.212 h
April	26.4°C22.0°C	22.0°C	78	12.6	11.612 h
May	24.3°C19.9°C	19.9°C	76	11.8	11.011 h
June	23.8°C18.8°C	18.8°C	40	7.5	10.811 h
July	23.4°C18.2°C	18.2°C	40	7.3	10.911 h
August	23.8°C18.4°C	18.4°C	36	7.4	11.311 h
September	24.5°C19.3°C	19.3°C	58	9.2	11.912 h
October	25.4°C20.4°C	20.4°C	67	10.2	12.613 h
November	25.8°C21.3°C	21.3°C	111	13.8	13.213 h
December	27.4°C22.7°C	22.7°C	122	12.9	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Saquarema

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Saquarema) is explained once on the Saquarema year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.