Climate and average weather in Catende

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

Best: late July to early January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Catende typically varies from 19°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 32°C. January is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Catende for warm-weather activities is from late July to early January.

Hottest
Jan
30°
Coldest
Jul
19°
Wettest
Jun
129 mm
Driest
Nov
31 mm
Rain / yr
880 mm
218 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
172 m
8.7°S
Clearest
Nov
56% cloud

Catende is human settlement in Brazil.

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

Catende 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 July to early January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Catende stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is January, with an average high of 30°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 19°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3022
Feb3022
Mar3022
Apr2922
May2721
Jun2620
Jul2519
Aug2519
Sep2619
Oct2820
Nov2921
Dec3021

How hot and cold Catende 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, Catende feels like about 33°C (around March 11). About 61 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32302222
Feb32302222
Mar32302222
Apr31292222
May28272121
Jun26262020
Jul25251919
Aug25251919
Sep26261919
Oct29282020
Nov31292121
Dec31302121

Average hourly temperature in Catende

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 January afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 19°C.

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

Catende 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
Jan30° / 22°5315.912.44.5
Feb30° / 22°5815.512.34.3
Mar30° / 22°7018.112.14.3
Apr29° / 22°8319.811.84.4
May27° / 21°10722.811.64.6
Jun26° / 20°12924.311.54.5
Jul25° / 19°12124.511.54.7
Aug25° / 19°8522.211.74.9
Sep26° / 19°6418.211.95.4
Oct28° / 20°4614.912.25.7
Nov29° / 21°3110.512.45.5
Dec30° / 21°3411.112.55.1

Chance of rain

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

Catende gets about 880 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 5.9 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 17, peaking in June at about 82% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 2.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 129 mm over about 24 wet days; November is the driest, with 31 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 11 · 82%Dec 2 · 30%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5116
Feb5616
Mar5818
Apr6620
May7423
Jun8124
Jul7825
Aug7322
Sep6118
Oct4815
Nov3511
Dec3711

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Catende collects about 880 mm of rain across 218 wet days — roughly 73 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 129 mm, while November is the driest at just 31 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec535870831071291218564463134
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan5316
Feb5816
Mar7018
Apr8320
May10723
Jun12924
Jul12125
Aug8522
Sep6418
Oct4615
Nov3111
Dec3411

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Catende, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around September 5 and lasts for 4.2 months, ending around January 10. The clearest month is October, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 18 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around September 4. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 57% 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 30 · 63%Apr 30 · 41%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5050
Feb4852
Mar5050
Apr4555
May4357
Jun4654
Jul4456
Aug4456
Sep5545
Oct5941
Nov5842
Dec5743

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 30 min of light; the shortest, around May 28, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.45:195:46
Feb12.35:295:46
Mar12.15:315:34
Apr11.85:295:17
May11.65:315:07
Jun11.55:385:08
Jul11.55:425:15
Aug11.75:365:18
Sep11.95:195:16
Oct12.25:025:14
Nov12.44:565:20
Dec12.55:045:34

Sunny days

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

Catende averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 9 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.7 months, from around Sep 21 to Apr 12. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 8 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is August, down near 2 sunny days — about 70% fewer than the December peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedDec 99 daysAug 182 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr5Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov7Gloomy
Dec8Mixed

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.

Catende 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 January, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecoppressivemuggyhumid
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan06040
Feb04456
Mar02872
Apr02575
May03862
Jun27523
Jul10864
Aug15841
Sep10873
Oct3907
Nov18811
Dec07822

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 Catende is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeNov 16 · 10 km/hMar 31 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May8calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug10calm
Sep10calm
Oct10calm
Nov10calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Catende

In seasonPeak

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

Catende's rainy season runs February–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Catende

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Catende 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 Catende for general outdoor tourist activities is from late July to early January, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 30 · 5.9

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
Jan4.6fair
Feb4.3fair
Mar4.3fair
Apr4.4fair
May4.6fair
Jun4.5fair
Jul4.7fair
Aug4.9fair
Sep5.4fair
Oct5.7good
Nov5.5good
Dec5.1fair

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 Catende for hot-weather activities is from late September to mid March, with a peak score in the first week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 1 · 7.1

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 Catende, 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.

Catende packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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 January, Catende sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 16 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Catende

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 69 km away) is warmest in April at about 29°C and coldest in August near 26°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Warm
Feb28Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May28Tropical
Jun27Warm
Jul26Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep26Warm
Oct27Warm
Nov27Warm
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in Catende 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 Catende peaks around March 14 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 17 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 14UV 15Jul 17UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Catende

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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun74.5
Jul75
Aug75
Sep86
Oct86
Nov86
Dec86
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Catende 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. Catende banks about 5,136 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan481
Feb437
Mar486
Apr451
May434
Jun384
Jul372
Aug371
Sep381
Oct426
Nov441
Dec475

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.

Catende receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.7 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Sep 15 to Apr 11. The brightest month is December, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.7 kWh/m² — roughly 36% less than the December peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 46.0 kWhJun 253.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May4.1Bright
Jun3.7Moderate
Jul3.8Moderate
Aug4.4Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov5.9Bright
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Catende?

Catende sits at 8.7°S, 35.7°W, 172 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Palmares, 14 km away.

Topography around Catende

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Catende has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 228 m around an average of 202 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 710 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,016 m.

The land around Catende is covered by grassland (57%) and trees (37%) within 3 km, grassland (56%) and trees (42%) within 16 km, and grassland (63%) within 80 km.

3 km
228 m
16 km
710 m
80 km
1,016 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Palmares 14 km · Água Preta 21 km · Bonito 22 km · Cupira 26 km · Colônia Leopoldina 27 km · São Joaquim do Monte 28 km · Panelas 32 km · Agrestina 34 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 Catende (-8.6667°, -35.7167°, elevation 172 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).