Barra do Garças weather in August

In August, Barra do Garças sees average daytime highs of 34°C and overnight lows near 19°C, with 4 mm of rain across 0.6 wet days and about 11.5 hours of daylight. It is the 3rd-warmest and 10th-wettest month of the year here.

Highs climb over the month, from about 33°C in the first days to 34°C by the end. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 75% of the time in August, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 11 h 18 min at the start of August to 11 h 42 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, August is Barra do Garças's 2nd-clearest and 1st-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Barra do Garças's year-round climate.

Daytime high
34°
3rd warmest
Overnight low
19°
3rd coldest
Rainfall
4 mm
0.6 wet days
Daylight
11 h 30 min
6:49 AM – 6:17 PM
Cloud cover
26%
2nd clearest
Wind
7 km/h
1st windiest
Solar energy
5.47 kWh/m²
Travel score
4.2
out of 10

Barra do Garças is human settlement in Brazil.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Temperature in August

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Highs climb over the month, from about 33°C in the first days to 34°C by the end.

A typical August day in Barra do Garças reaches about 34°C in the afternoon and slips back to 19°C overnight — a 14°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 31°C and 36°C. Set against its neighbours, August runs about 2°C warmer than July and about 1°C cooler than September.

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Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
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How August really feels in Barra do Garças

Once humidity and wind are folded in, August averages 31 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
31
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in August is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Barra do Garças weather by month

How August compares with the rest of the year at a glance. August is the 3rd-warmest and 10th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan30° / 22°29624.412.83.1
Feb31° / 22°2302212.53.1
Mar31° / 22°19022.612.13.2
Apr31° / 22°7011.611.74.1
May31° / 20°132.611.35.2
Jun31° / 18°30.611.15.7
Jul32° / 18°10.311.25.6
Aug34° / 19°40.611.54.2
Sep35° / 22°305.411.93.0
Oct34° / 23°9915.512.42.7
Nov31° / 22°20822.712.72.9
Dec30° / 22°29125.312.93.0

Cloud cover in August

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 75% of the time in August.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 12% of August, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 13%. Skies tend to cloud over as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
18713
28713
38713
48713
58713
68614
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Chance of precipitation in August

Any precipitation

Barra do Garças gets around 4 mm of rain over 0.6 wet days in August. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 2% and peaks near 6% on the wettest days.

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Humidity in August

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of August feels dry — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, August lands in the dry band about 48% of days. It rarely turns muggy — the humid and sticky bands barely register.

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Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
1523891
2523891
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9523792
105236102
115236102
125136103
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194737124
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214638134
224538135
234437145
244337146
254336156
264236157
274235168
284233169
2942321610
3042311711
3142301711

Wind in August

Winds average 7 km/h in August, the windiest month of the year.

Across August, daily wind ranges from about 7 km/h on the calmest days to 7 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
17calm
27calm
37calm
47calm
57calm
67calm
77calm
87calm
97calm
107calm
117calm
127calm
137calm
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Sunrise & sunset in August

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 11 h 18 min at the start of August to 11 h 42 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 24 minutes over August. Sunrise moves from 6:57 AM to 6:39 AM, and sunset from 6:14 PM to 6:19 PM.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AM151015202531
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
111.36:576:14
211.36:566:14
311.36:566:14
411.36:556:14
511.36:556:15
611.36:556:15
711.46:546:15
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911.46:536:16
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1911.56:476:18
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Solar energy in August

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in August, about 5.47 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 4.56 kWh/m² to a high of 6.14 kWh/m² in October across the year — August's 5.47 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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Planning a trip in August

Hazard calendar for Barra do Garças

In seasonPeak

None of Barra do Garças's seasonal hazards are active in August. The full-year calendar below shows when the rainy season, cyclone risk and dust haze do peak.

Barra do Garças's monsoon runs November–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon
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Aug
Sep
Oct
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Is August a good time to visit Barra do Garças?

Our two travel scores rate August for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

4.2
Sightseeing
4th-best month of the year
7.9
Beach & pool
4th-best month of the year

August is a reasonable time to visit Barra do Garças for sightseeing. The water and warmth also suit a beach or pool day.

What to pack for Barra do Garças in August

From August's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In August, Barra do Garças sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

light clothessun protection

UV index in Barra do Garças in August

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in August peaks around 9 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Barra do Garças peaks around January 22 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 22 at about 8 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeJan 22UV 15Jun 22UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Air quality in Barra do Garças in August

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where August falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Barra do Garças is worst in September — around 34 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 8.1× the cleanest month (July, 4 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1731 µg/m³Jul 114 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb8Good
Mar9Good
Apr8Good
May6Good
Jun6Good
Jul4Good
Aug12Moderate
Sep34Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov8Good
Dec8Good
Location & terrain

Where is Barra do Garças?

Barra do Garças sits at 15.9°S, 52.3°W, 302 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Aragarças, 1.0 km away.

Topography around Barra do Garças

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Barra do Garças.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Barra do Garças has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 378 m around an average of 358 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 487 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 753 m.

The land around Barra do Garças is covered by trees (41%) and artificial surfaces (36%) within 3 km, trees (41%) and grassland (40%) within 16 km, and grassland (52%) and trees (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
378 m
16 km
487 m
80 km
753 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
August weather nearby: Aragarças 1.0 km · Caiapônia 128 km · Iporá 136 km · Nova Xavantina 137 km · Jussara 149 km · Campinápolis 161 km · Alto Araguaia 188 km · Mineiros 189 km

Brazil travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / N
127 / 220 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 46% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$10,713
2025
Happiness
6.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
89%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
19.3
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
16
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 482
Religion
Roman Catholic 57%Evangelical 27%none 9%other 4%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Barra do Garças (-15.89°, -52.2567°, elevation 302 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).