Climate averages 1991–2020

Unaí weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 20.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 196 mm 19 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Unaí: daytime highs average 29.1°C and nights cool to about 20.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 196 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 59 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Paracatu (96 km away). In January its highs average 28.4°C, 0.7°C cooler than Unaí, with 254 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Unaí ranks joint 160th of 448 for the warmest January highs and joint 165th of 448 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Unaí is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 196 mm to 140 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

Unaí climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Unaí, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.1°C20.7°C	20.7°C	196	19.2	13.013 h
February	29.3°C20.8°C	20.8°C	140	16.0	12.613 h
March	28.7°C20.6°C	20.6°C	171	18.0	12.212 h
April	28.4°C19.8°C	19.8°C	60	9.6	11.712 h
May	27.7°C17.9°C	17.9°C	14	2.9	11.411 h
June	27.1°C16.4°C	16.4°C	3.2	0.3	11.211 h
July	27.2°C15.7°C	15.7°C	0.3	0.0	11.211 h
August	29.1°C16.7°C	16.7°C	3.6	0.9	11.612 h
September	31.4°C19.2°C	19.2°C	24	3.4	12.012 h
October	31.6°C20.9°C	20.9°C	92	10.2	12.512 h
November	29.1°C20.7°C	20.7°C	193	20.0	12.913 h
December	29.0°C20.8°C	20.8°C	221	21.1	13.113 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 Unaí

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