Climate and average weather in Caraúbas

In Caraúbas, the weather is humid, sweltering, showery, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around April.

Best: late April to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Caraúbas typically varies from 22°C to 36°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 38°C. October is the hottest month of the year, while June is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Caraúbas for warm-weather activities is from late April to late August.

Hottest
Oct
36°
Coldest
Jun
23°
Wettest
Apr
118 mm
Driest
Sep
1 mm
Rain / yr
478 mm
68 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
152 m
5.8°S
Clearest
Sep
35% cloud

Caraúbas is settlement in Brazil.

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

Caraúbas 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 April to late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Caraúbas stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is October, with an average high of 36°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is June, with an average low of 23°C and high of 33°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in September.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3525
Feb3524
Mar3424
Apr3324
May3324
Jun3323
Jul3322
Aug3522
Sep3623
Oct3624
Nov3624
Dec3625

How hot and cold Caraúbas 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, Caraúbas feels like about 39°C (around December 13). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in December.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan38352525
Feb38352424
Mar38342424
Apr37332424
May37332424
Jun35332323
Jul34332222
Aug35352222
Sep37362323
Oct38362424
Nov38362424
Dec39362525

Average hourly temperature in Caraúbas

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 36°C, and coldest before dawn in June, near 23°C.

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

Caraúbas 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
Jan35° / 25°608.612.32.4
Feb35° / 24°8110.812.22.6
Mar34° / 24°11215.4122.7
Apr33° / 24°11813.711.93.1
May33° / 24°477.711.73.5
Jun33° / 23°244.911.73.9
Jul33° / 22°152.711.73.9
Aug35° / 22°50.611.83.4
Sep36° / 23°10.2122.7
Oct36° / 24°30.312.12.3
Nov36° / 24°20.312.32.3
Dec36° / 25°112.312.32.3

Chance of rain

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

Caraúbas gets about 478 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.8 months, from around Jan 6 to Jun 1, peaking in March at about 55% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 2.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 118 mm over about 14 wet days; September is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 29 · 55%Oct 2 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan279
Feb3911
Mar4915
Apr4614
May258
Jun175
Jul93
Aug21
Sep10
Oct10
Nov10
Dec82

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Caraúbas collects about 478 mm of rain across 68 wet days — roughly 40 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 118 mm, while September is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 65% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6081112118472415513211
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan609
Feb8111
Mar11215
Apr11814
May478
Jun245
Jul153
Aug51
Sep10
Oct30
Nov20
Dec112

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Caraúbas, 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 13 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around December 19. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 85% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around December 20 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around July 12. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 56% 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 26 · 89%Mar 27 · 43%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4951
Feb4654
Mar4654
Apr4456
May5545
Jun5644
Jul6139
Aug7426
Sep8515
Oct8020
Nov6832
Dec6238

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, Caraúbas barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.35:305:49
Feb12.25:395:50
Mar12.05:395:41
Apr11.95:345:27
May11.75:345:19
Jun11.75:405:20
Jul11.75:455:27
Aug11.85:405:29
Sep12.05:255:24
Oct12.15:115:19
Nov12.35:075:24
Dec12.35:165:36

Sunny days

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

Caraúbas averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Jul 19 to Dec 22. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is March, down near 7 sunny days — about 64% fewer than the September peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 2822 daysMar 236 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun9Mixed
Jul11Mixed
Aug16Bright
Sep19Bright
Oct18Bright
Nov13Mixed
Dec12Mixed

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.

Caraúbas 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 89% 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 9 · 14%Jan 1 · 0%muggyoppressivehumidcomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan01149400
Feb0537562
Mar0121735
Apr0218754
May0540541
Jun22158200
Jul8434550
Aug12632310
Sep10682200
Oct4583620
Nov1346410
Dec01968130

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 Caraúbas is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Jun 18 to Jan 2. The windiest month is August, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jan 3 to Jun 17, with April the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmlight breezeAug 20 · 17 km/hApr 1 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb11calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May11calm
Jun13light breeze
Jul15light breeze
Aug16light breeze
Sep16light breeze
Oct16light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Best time to visit Caraúbas

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early May, Caraúbas is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Caraúbas for general outdoor tourist activities is from late April to late August, with a peak score in the first week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 6 · 4.0

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
Jan2.4poor
Feb2.6poor
Mar2.7poor
Apr3.1poor
May3.5poor
Jun3.9fair
Jul3.9fair
Aug3.4poor
Sep2.7poor
Oct2.3poor
Nov2.3poor
Dec2.3poor

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 Caraúbas for hot-weather activities is from early May to early October, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 1 · 7.4

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 Caraúbas, 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.

Caraúbas packs about the same all year — highs hold near 36°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In October, Caraúbas sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Caraúbas 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 Caraúbas peaks around March 15 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 15 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 15UV 15Jul 15UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug10Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Caraúbas

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
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86.5
May7.55.5
Jun7.55
Jul74.5
Aug7.55
Sep86
Oct86
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Caraúbas 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 Caraúbas is worst in October — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.6× the cleanest month (July, 5 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateOct 2016 µg/m³Jul 135 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb9Good
Mar9Good
Apr9Good
May7Good
Jun5Good
Jul5Good
Aug6Good
Sep11Good
Oct16Moderate
Nov14Moderate
Dec12Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Caraúbas 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. Caraúbas banks about 6,977 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around December.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan617
Feb544
Mar587
Apr555
May574
Jun539
Jul552
Aug570
Sep581
Oct622
Nov608
Dec631

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.

Caraúbas receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.7 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.8 months, from around Aug 19 to Mar 12. The brightest month is October, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 4.7 kWh/m² — roughly 31% less than the October peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseOct 36.9 kWhJun 194.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Intense
Feb6.0Intense
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.4Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun4.7Bright
Jul4.9Bright
Aug5.9Bright
Sep6.6Intense
Oct6.9Intense
Nov6.8Intense
Dec6.4Intense

Where is Caraúbas?

Caraúbas sits at 5.8°S, 37.6°W, 152 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Apodi, 30 km away.

Topography around Caraúbas

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Caraúbas has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 50 m around an average of 156 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 278 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 744 m.

The land around Caraúbas is covered by grassland (60%) and shrubs (23%) within 3 km, shrubs (65%) and grassland (30%) within 16 km, and shrubs (68%) and grassland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
50 m
16 km
278 m
80 km
744 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Apodi 30 km · São Bento 59 km · Catolé do Rocha 65 km · Jucurutu 65 km · Mossoró 71 km · Açu 76 km · Baraúna 80 km · Pau dos Ferros 80 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 Caraúbas (-5.7925°, -37.5567°, elevation 152 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).