Climate and average weather in Cantá

In Cantá, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around May.

Best: late November to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cantá typically varies from 22°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 35°C. October is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Cantá for warm-weather activities are from late August to mid October and late November to mid April.

Hottest
Oct
33°
Coldest
Jul
22°
Wettest
May
422 mm
Driest
Feb
48 mm
Rain / yr
2236 mm
221 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
76 m
2.6°N
Clearest
Sep
56% cloud

Cantá 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 late November to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Cantá stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is October, with an average high of 33°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 22°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3224
Feb3224
Mar3224
Apr3124
May3023
Jun2922
Jul2922
Aug3022
Sep3223
Oct3324
Nov3224
Dec3224

How hot and cold Cantá 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, Cantá feels like about 37°C (around October 13). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in October.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34322424
Feb34322424
Mar35322424
Apr35312424
May33302323
Jun33292222
Jul32292222
Aug34302222
Sep36322323
Oct37332324
Nov37322424
Dec35322424

Average hourly temperature in Cantá

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 October afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 22°C.

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

Cantá 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
Jan32° / 24°528.711.94.1
Feb32° / 24°488.211.93.9
Mar32° / 24°8410.4123.6
Apr31° / 24°24619.312.13.3
May30° / 23°42227.812.13.0
Jun29° / 22°38928.412.13.0
Jul29° / 22°32728.812.13.1
Aug30° / 22°22325.412.13.2
Sep32° / 23°13618.5123.3
Oct33° / 24°10315.711.93.3
Nov32° / 24°12116.411.93.2
Dec32° / 24°8413.211.93.7

Chance of rain

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

Cantá gets about 2236 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 5.2 months, from around Apr 12 to Sep 17, peaking in June at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 17.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 422 mm over about 28 wet days; February is the driest, with 48 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 13 · 95%Feb 17 · 28%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb298
Mar3510
Apr6519
May8928
Jun9428
Jul9329
Aug8225
Sep6119
Oct5116
Nov5416
Dec4313

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cantá collects about 2236 mm of rain across 221 wet days — roughly 186 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 422 mm, while February is the driest at just 48 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 51% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec52488424642238932722313610312184
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan529
Feb488
Mar8410
Apr24619
May42228
Jun38928
Jul32729
Aug22325
Sep13619
Oct10316
Nov12116
Dec8413

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Cantá, 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 July 26 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around December 10. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 55% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around December 11 and lasts for 7.5 months, ending around July 25. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 87% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 22 · 56%May 10 · 12%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2773
Feb2773
Mar2476
Apr1783
May1387
Jun1981
Jul2872
Aug4159
Sep5545
Oct4753
Nov3466
Dec3070

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. Close to the equator, Cantá barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 12 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.96:166:08
Feb11.96:206:14
Mar12.06:136:12
Apr12.16:016:04
May12.15:556:02
Jun12.15:586:07
Jul12.16:046:12
Aug12.16:046:09
Sep12.05:565:57
Oct11.95:495:46
Nov11.95:515:44
Dec11.96:035:54

Sunny days

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

Cantá averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around Aug 6 to Dec 3. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is May, down near 1 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the September peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedSep 2310 daysMay 141 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep10Mixed
Oct8Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

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.

Cantá 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 93% of the time. Even in February, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggyhumid
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan749440
Feb1252360
Mar847441
Apr2186911
May028315
Jun01927
Jul00973
Aug008712
Sep047719
Oct097715
Nov097813
Dec126694

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Cantá is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around Nov 27 to Apr 18. The windiest month is February, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 19 to Nov 26, with July the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 8 · 10 km/hJul 31 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar9calm
Apr7calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Cantá

In seasonPeak

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

Cantá's monsoon runs April–August, 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 Cantá

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early April, Cantá 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 times of year to visit Cantá for general outdoor tourist activities run from late August to mid October and again from late November to mid April, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 5 · 4.1

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
Jan4.1fair
Feb3.9fair
Mar3.6fair
Apr3.3poor
May3.0poor
Jun3.0poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.2poor
Nov3.3poor
Dec3.7fair

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 Cantá for hot-weather activities is from mid September to mid April, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 11 · 6.4

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 Cantá, 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.

Cantá packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In October, Cantá sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 16 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Cantá 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 Cantá peaks around March 21 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 16 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 21UV 15Nov 16UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Cantá

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 6.5 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)
Jan86
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May86.5
Jun86
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct85.5
Nov7.55.5
Dec86

Air quality in Cantá 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 Cantá is worst in March — around 31 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.8× the cleanest month (July, 11 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateMar 1830 µg/m³Jul 2111 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb21Moderate
Mar31Moderate
Apr25Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun12Good
Jul11Good
Aug12Good
Sep12Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Cantá 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. Cantá banks about 6,252 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan548
Feb501
Mar563
Apr518
May502
Jun472
Jul483
Aug506
Sep521
Oct557
Nov536
Dec546

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.

Cantá receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 5.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around Aug 17 to Dec 17. The brightest month is October, averaging about 5.6 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 32% less than the October peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseOct 15.7 kWhJun 63.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar5.4Bright
Apr4.6Bright
May3.8Moderate
Jun3.8Moderate
Jul4.1Bright
Aug4.8Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov5.1Bright
Dec4.8Bright

Where is Cantá?

Cantá sits at 2.6°N, 60.6°W, 76 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Boa Vista, 25 km away.

Topography around Cantá

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cantá has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 268 m around an average of 90 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 417 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,013 m.

The land around Cantá is covered by trees (73%) and grassland (24%) within 3 km, trees (64%) and grassland (34%) within 16 km, and trees (50%) and grassland (47%) within 80 km.

3 km
268 m
16 km
417 m
80 km
1,013 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Boa Vista 25 km · Mucajaí 40 km · Alto Alegre 105 km · Caracaraí 106 km · Lethem 123 km · Rorainópolis 186 km · Pacaraima 211 km · Santa Elena de Uairén 229 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 Cantá (2.6103°, -60.5975°, elevation 76 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).