Climate and average weather in Cerro Azul

In Cerro Azul, the summers are humid, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and the winters are mild and partly cloudy.

Best: late March to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cerro Azul typically varies from 10°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 5°C or above 33°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 Cerro Azul for warm-weather activities is from late March to mid October.

Hottest
Jan
28°
Coldest
Jul
10°
Wettest
Jan
218 mm
Driest
Aug
57 mm
Rain / yr
1371 mm
156 wet days
Daylight
10.5–13.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
317 m
24.8°S
Clearest
Aug
50% cloud

Cerro Azul 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 March to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Cerro Azul stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is January, with an average high of 28°C and low of 19°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 10°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2819
Feb2819
Mar2718
Apr2616
May2213
Jun2111
Jul2110
Aug2311
Sep2413
Oct2515
Nov2616
Dec2818

Average hourly temperature in Cerro Azul

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 10°C.

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

Cerro Azul 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
Jan28° / 19°21822.113.44.2
Feb28° / 19°16819.312.94.4
Mar27° / 18°13317.712.25.3
Apr26° / 16°649.211.46.7
May22° / 13°798.510.86.9
Jun21° / 11°787.810.56.9
Jul21° / 10°717.210.67.0
Aug23° / 11°576.811.17.4
Sep24° / 13°10910.211.86.8
Oct25° / 15°1201412.65.9
Nov26° / 16°11915.213.25.6
Dec28° / 18°15518.213.54.9

Chance of rain

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

Cerro Azul gets about 1371 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 5.8 months, from around Oct 5 to Mar 29, peaking in January at about 71% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 14.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 218 mm over about 22 wet days; August is the driest, with 57 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 22 · 71%Aug 14 · 21%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7022
Feb6919
Mar5618
Apr329
May279
Jun268
Jul247
Aug227
Sep3310
Oct4514
Nov5015
Dec6018

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cerro Azul collects about 1371 mm of rain across 156 wet days — roughly 114 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 218 mm, while August is the driest at just 57 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2181681336479787157109120119155
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan21822
Feb16819
Mar13318
Apr649
May799
Jun788
Jul717
Aug577
Sep10910
Oct12014
Nov11915
Dec15518

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Cerro Azul, 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 April 2 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around September 17. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 55% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 18 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around April 1. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 75% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 26 · 57%Oct 20 · 23%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2674
Feb3169
Mar3664
Apr4357
May4258
Jun5050
Jul5248
Aug5545
Sep4159
Oct2575
Nov3070
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. The longest day, around January 1, brings about 13 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around June 4, only 10 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 3 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.46:458:08
Feb12.97:067:58
Mar12.27:217:32
Apr11.47:357:00
May10.87:496:37
Jun10.58:036:31
Jul10.68:056:41
Aug11.17:476:55
Sep11.87:167:07
Oct12.66:447:20
Nov13.26:257:39
Dec13.56:277:59

Sunny days

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

Cerro Azul averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Apr 16 to Sep 21. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 3 sunny days — about 78% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 2714 daysJan 173 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug14Mixed
Sep9Mixed
Oct5Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

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.

In Cerro Azul, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around October 9 to April 26. The muggiest month is February, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 27 to October 8, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 96% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 29 · 97%Feb 13 · 3%oppressivecomfortablehumidmuggydryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan04226212
Feb03196611
Mar0829594
Apr92339280
May31402720
Jun44441200
Jul5640400
Aug4844700
Sep31432430
Oct152742160
Nov82437291
Dec11330516

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeOct 1 · 7 km/hJun 13 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Cerro Azul

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid April, Cerro Azul 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 Cerro Azul for general outdoor tourist activities is from early April to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 26 · 7.6

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
Feb4.4fair
Mar5.3fair
Apr6.7good
May6.9good
Jun6.8good
Jul7.0good
Aug7.4good
Sep6.9good
Oct5.9good
Nov5.6good
Dec4.9fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Cerro Azul for hot-weather activities run from late February to mid May and again from early August to early January, with a peak score in the third week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 21 · 6.3

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 Cerro Azul, 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.

For a warm-season trip around January (highs near 28°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 21°C), pack a light layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Cerro Azul sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 22 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Cerro Azul 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 Cerro Azul peaks around January 19 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 12 at about 5 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighExtremeJan 19UV 15Jul 12UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr9Very high
May7High
Jun6High
Jul5High
Aug7High
Sep7High
Oct11Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Cerro Azul

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 January the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 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)
Jan97
Feb8.57
Mar86
Apr74.5
May5.52
Jun50
Jul50
Aug62.5
Sep6.53
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec97

Air quality in Cerro Azul 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 Cerro Azul is worst in September — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (March, 8 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1216 µg/m³Mar 108 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb8Good
Mar8Good
Apr9Good
May10Good
Jun10Good
Jul11Good
Aug15Moderate
Sep17Moderate
Oct11Good
Nov9Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Cerro Azul 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. Cerro Azul banks about 3,631 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around January.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan418
Feb376
Mar393
Apr322
May233
Jun185
Jul177
Aug214
Sep256
Oct316
Nov342
Dec398

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.

Cerro Azul receives about 4.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.9 and 5.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Sep 26 to Mar 28. The brightest month is December, averaging about 5.6 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 2.9 kWh/m² — roughly 48% less than the December peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 205.7 kWhJun 202.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar4.7Bright
Apr4.1Bright
May3.2Moderate
Jun2.9Moderate
Jul3.2Moderate
Aug4.0Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov5.4Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Cerro Azul?

Cerro Azul sits at 24.8°S, 49.3°W, 317 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Rio Branco do Sul, 41 km away.

Topography around Cerro Azul

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cerro Azul has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 320 m around an average of 398 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,029 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,785 m.

The land around Cerro Azul is covered by trees (56%) and grassland (39%) within 3 km, trees (73%) and grassland (26%) within 16 km, and trees (80%) within 80 km.

3 km
320 m
16 km
1,029 m
80 km
1,785 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Rio Branco do Sul 41 km · Itaperuçu 45 km · Colombo 52 km · Apiaí 55 km · Almirante Tamandaré 56 km · Campina Grande do Sul 57 km · Quatro Barras 63 km · Campo Magro 64 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 Cerro Azul (-24.8236°, -49.2611°, elevation 317 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).