Climate and average weather in Canaã dos Carajás

In Canaã dos Carajás, the weather is humid, sweltering, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: mid May to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Canaã dos Carajás typically varies from 22°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 35°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Canaã dos Carajás for warm-weather activities is from mid May to late August.

Hottest
Aug
34°
Coldest
Jan
22°
Wettest
Jan
262 mm
Driest
Jul
6 mm
Rain / yr
1582 mm
196 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
282 m
6.5°S
Clearest
Jul
31% cloud

Canaã dos Carajás weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid May to late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Canaã dos Carajás, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Canaã dos Carajás stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 34°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 22°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in August.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2922
Feb2922
Mar3022
Apr3022
May3122
Jun3222
Jul3322
Aug3422
Sep3323
Oct3223
Nov3023
Dec3022

How hot and cold Canaã dos Carajás really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Canaã dos Carajás feels like about 36°C (around September 26). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in September.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33292222
Feb33292222
Mar33302222
Apr34302222
May34312222
Jun34322222
Jul34332222
Aug35342222
Sep36332323
Oct36322323
Nov34302323
Dec33302222

Average hourly temperature in Canaã dos Carajás

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 22°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Canaã dos Carajás weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan29° / 22°26228.612.32.9
Feb29° / 22°25426.412.22.9
Mar30° / 22°25728.6122.9
Apr30° / 22°19725.311.93.1
May31° / 22°10716.611.74.0
Jun32° / 22°173.711.65.0
Jul33° / 22°61.311.74.7
Aug34° / 22°61.211.84.1
Sep33° / 23°275.1124.0
Oct32° / 23°8513.412.13.8
Nov30° / 23°16120.512.33.4
Dec30° / 22°20425.212.43.2

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Canaã dos Carajás gets about 1582 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.6 months, from around Oct 26 to May 15, peaking in February at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 30.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 262 mm over about 29 wet days; July is the driest, with 6 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 19 · 95%Jul 30 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9229
Feb9426
Mar9229
Apr8425
May5317
Jun134
Jul41
Aug41
Sep175
Oct4313
Nov6821
Dec8225

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Canaã dos Carajás collects about 1582 mm of rain across 196 wet days — roughly 132 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 262 mm, while July is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec26225425719710717662785161204
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan26229
Feb25426
Mar25729
Apr19725
May10717
Jun174
Jul61
Aug61
Sep275
Oct8513
Nov16121
Dec20425

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Canaã dos Carajás, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 16 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around October 18. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 19 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around May 15. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 92% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 30 · 91%Mar 5 · 8%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan991
Feb892
Mar991
Apr1981
May4258
Jun7723
Jul8812
Aug8713
Sep7426
Oct4654
Nov2179
Dec1486

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around January 1, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around June 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.36:186:39
Feb12.26:286:40
Mar12.06:286:30
Apr11.96:246:15
May11.76:256:07
Jun11.66:316:08
Jul11.76:356:15
Aug11.86:306:17
Sep12.06:156:13
Oct12.16:006:09
Nov12.35:566:14
Dec12.46:046:27

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Canaã dos Carajás averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.7 months, from around May 23 to Oct 13. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 1 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 123 daysJan 230 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun17Bright
Jul22Bright
Aug22Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct8Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec1Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

Canaã dos Carajás is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 100% of the time. Even in August, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 12% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 1 · 18%Jan 1 · 0%muggyoppressivehumidcomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan000991
Feb000973
Mar000973
Apr000946
May005914
Jun01243440
Jul103840120
Aug123442110
Sep21141470
Oct009900
Nov000991
Dec000991

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Canaã dos Carajás is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeAug 3 · 7 km/hMar 18 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Canaã dos Carajás

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Canaã dos Carajás's monsoon runs November–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Canaã dos Carajás

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Canaã dos Carajás throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid August, Canaã dos Carajás is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Canaã dos Carajás for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late August, with a peak score in the third week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 17 · 5.1

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan2.9poor
Feb2.9poor
Mar2.9poor
Apr3.1poor
May4.0fair
Jun5.0fair
Jul4.7fair
Aug4.2fair
Sep4.0fair
Oct3.8fair
Nov3.4poor
Dec3.2poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Canaã dos Carajás for hot-weather activities is from late May to early October, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 26 · 8.0

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Canaã dos Carajás, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Canaã dos Carajás packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Canaã dos Carajás sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Canaã dos Carajás by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Canaã dos Carajás peaks around March 11 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 23 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeMar 11UV 15Jun 23UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Canaã dos Carajás

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan8.56.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.57
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun75
Jul75
Aug7.55
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Canaã dos Carajás by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Canaã dos Carajás is worst in September — around 46 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 7.9× the cleanest month (July, 6 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModeratePoorModerateSep 1843 µg/m³Jul 106 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Moderate
Feb12Good
Mar12Good
Apr12Good
May9Good
Jun6Good
Jul6Good
Aug17Moderate
Sep46Poor
Oct28Moderate
Nov23Moderate
Dec17Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Canaã dos Carajás is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Canaã dos Carajás banks about 6,061 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around September.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan487
Feb440
Mar491
Apr481
May506
Jun501
Jul534
Aug554
Sep541
Oct537
Nov495
Dec496

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Canaã dos Carajás receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.4 and 6.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around Jun 29 to Nov 27. The brightest month is September, averaging about 6.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is March, down near 4.5 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the September peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 246.2 kWhMar 254.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.6Bright
Feb4.5Bright
Mar4.5Bright
Apr4.5Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep6.1Intense
Oct6.0Bright
Nov5.3Bright
Dec4.9Bright

Where is Canaã dos Carajás?

Canaã dos Carajás sits at 6.5°S, 49.9°W, 282 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Parauapebas, 51 km away.

Topography around Canaã dos Carajás

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Canaã dos Carajás.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Canaã dos Carajás has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 174 m around an average of 285 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 548 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 836 m.

The land around Canaã dos Carajás is covered by grassland (51%) and artificial surfaces (33%) within 3 km, grassland (76%) and trees (22%) within 16 km, and grassland (61%) and trees (38%) within 80 km.

3 km
174 m
16 km
548 m
80 km
836 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Parauapebas 51 km · Curionópolis 55 km · Xinguara 65 km · Eldorado dos Carajás 72 km · Água Azul do Norte 74 km · Rio Maria 90 km · Floresta do Araguaia 116 km · Ourilândia do Norte 138 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 Canaã dos Carajás (-6.5239°, -49.8517°, elevation 282 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).