Climate and average weather in Caucaia

In Caucaia, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around April.

Best: late May to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Caucaia typically varies from 24°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 23°C or above 32°C. October is the hottest month of the year, while April is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Caucaia for warm-weather activities is from late May to late December.

Hottest
Oct
31°
Coldest
Apr
24°
Wettest
Apr
209 mm
Driest
Sep
2 mm
Rain / yr
771 mm
120 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
35 m
3.7°S
Clearest
Sep
22% cloud

Caucaia is human settlement in Brazil.

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

Caucaia 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 May to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Caucaia stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is October, with an average high of 31°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is April, with an average low of 24°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3125
Feb3025
Mar3024
Apr2924
May3024
Jun3024
Jul3024
Aug3124
Sep3124
Oct3125
Nov3125
Dec3125

How hot and cold Caucaia 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, Caucaia feels like about 35°C (around December 9). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in December.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34312525
Feb34302525
Mar34302424
Apr33292424
May34302424
Jun33302424
Jul33302424
Aug33312424
Sep34312424
Oct34312525
Nov35312525
Dec35312525

Average hourly temperature in Caucaia

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in April, near 24°C.

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

Caucaia 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
Jan31° / 25°8014.512.24.2
Feb30° / 25°11818.312.13.8
Mar30° / 24°17123.9123.5
Apr29° / 24°20923.711.93.5
May30° / 24°9516.511.84.4
Jun30° / 24°449.711.85.3
Jul30° / 24°214.611.85.7
Aug31° / 24°4111.95.8
Sep31° / 24°20.2125.8
Oct31° / 25°30.612.15.6
Nov31° / 25°41.312.25.4
Dec31° / 25°205.412.25.0

Chance of rain

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

Caucaia gets about 771 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.4 months, from around Jan 1 to Jun 14, peaking in March at about 84% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 10.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 209 mm over about 24 wet days; September is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 31 · 84%Sep 10 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4615
Feb6518
Mar7724
Apr7824
May5317
Jun3310
Jul155
Aug31
Sep10
Oct21
Nov41
Dec185

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Caucaia collects about 771 mm of rain across 120 wet days — roughly 64 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 209 mm, while September is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 65% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec80118171209954421423420
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan8015
Feb11818
Mar17124
Apr20924
May9517
Jun4410
Jul215
Aug41
Sep20
Oct31
Nov41
Dec205

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Caucaia, 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 26 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around December 18. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 95% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around December 19 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around May 25. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 68% 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 21 · 96%Mar 31 · 26%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4555
Feb3664
Mar3367
Apr3268
May5743
Jun7822
Jul8416
Aug937
Sep955
Oct8713
Nov7525
Dec6634

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, Caucaia 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)
Jan12.25:385:50
Feb12.15:465:53
Mar12.05:445:45
Apr11.95:375:32
May11.85:365:26
Jun11.85:415:28
Jul11.85:465:34
Aug11.95:425:35
Sep12.05:305:28
Oct12.15:175:22
Nov12.25:155:25
Dec12.25:245:37

Sunny days

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

Caucaia averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 26 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.5 months, from around May 31 to Dec 15. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 5 sunny days — about 81% fewer than the September peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 2026 daysMar 284 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb6Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr5Gloomy
May11Mixed
Jun17Bright
Jul21Bright
Aug24Brilliant
Sep25Brilliant
Oct22Bright
Nov17Bright
Dec15Mixed

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.

Caucaia 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan02935
Feb008614
Mar007822
Apr007822
May018712
Jun015841
Jul152470
Aug273240
Sep166330
Oct043570
Nov016840
Dec05941

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 Caucaia is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Jun 26 to Dec 31. The windiest month is September, averaging about 21 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jan 1 to Jun 25, with March the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezySep 12 · 21 km/hMar 29 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar11calm
Apr11calm
May13light breeze
Jun16light breeze
Jul18light breeze
Aug20breezy
Sep21breezy
Oct21breezy
Nov19light breeze
Dec18light breeze

Hazard calendar for Caucaia

In seasonPeak

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

Caucaia's monsoon runs February–May, 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 Caucaia

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Caucaia 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 Caucaia for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late December, with a peak score in the third week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 21 · 5.8

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
Jan4.2fair
Feb3.8fair
Mar3.5fair
Apr3.6fair
May4.4fair
Jun5.3fair
Jul5.7good
Aug5.8good
Sep5.8good
Oct5.6good
Nov5.4fair
Dec5.0fair

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 Caucaia for hot-weather activities is from mid June to late December, with a peak score in the third week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 20 · 8.7

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 Caucaia, 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.

Caucaia packs about the same all year — highs hold near 31°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection, a windbreaker and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In October, Caucaia sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: a windbreaker.

Sea temperature near Caucaia

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 13 km away) is warmest in April at about 29°C and coldest in August near 27°C.

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

26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Tropical
Feb28Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun28Warm
Jul27Warm
Aug27Warm
Sep27Warm
Oct27Warm
Nov27Warm
Dec28Warm

UV index (midday) in Caucaia 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 Caucaia peaks around March 16 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 16UV 15Jun 23UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug10Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Caucaia

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)
Jan86
Feb86.5
Mar8.57
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun75
Jul75
Aug7.55
Sep86
Oct85.5
Nov86
Dec85.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Caucaia 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. Caucaia banks about 6,366 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around November.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan548
Feb484
Mar526
Apr504
May528
Jun508
Jul528
Aug542
Sep533
Oct559
Nov545
Dec562

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.

Caucaia receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.7 and 6.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around Jul 27 to Jan 7. The brightest month is September, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is April, down near 4.7 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the September peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 296.7 kWhApr 234.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb5.4Bright
Mar5.1Bright
Apr4.7Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug6.2Intense
Sep6.7Intense
Oct6.7Intense
Nov6.4Intense
Dec6.1Intense

Where is Caucaia?

Caucaia sits at 3.7°S, 38.7°W, 35 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Fortaleza, 12 km away.

Topography around Caucaia

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Caucaia has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 35 m around an average of 14 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 642 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,081 m.

The land around Caucaia is covered by trees (31%), artificial surfaces (31%) and grassland (25%) within 3 km, trees (28%), water (25%) and artificial surfaces (23%) within 16 km, and water (35%), trees (22%) and shrubs (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
35 m
16 km
642 m
80 km
1,081 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Fortaleza 12 km · Maracanaú 16 km · Maranguape 18 km · Pacatuba 28 km · Eusébio 28 km · Itaitinga 29 km · Guaiúba 34 km · Aquiraz 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 Caucaia (-3.7361°, -38.6531°, elevation 35 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).