Climate and average weather in Iguaba Grande

In Iguaba Grande, 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 December.

Best: mid April to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Iguaba Grande typically varies from 18°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 31°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Iguaba Grande for warm-weather activities is from mid April to late October.

Hottest
Feb
29°
Coldest
Jul
18°
Wettest
Dec
189 mm
Driest
Aug
42 mm
Rain / yr
1281 mm
141 wet days
Daylight
10.6–13.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
17 m
22.8°S
Clearest
Jul
40% cloud

Iguaba Grande is settlement in Brazil.

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

Iguaba Grande 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 mid April to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Iguaba Grande stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 29°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 18°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 5°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2924
Feb2924
Mar2823
Apr2722
May2520
Jun2519
Jul2418
Aug2419
Sep2520
Oct2621
Nov2622
Dec2823

How hot and cold Iguaba Grande 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, Iguaba Grande feels like about 33°C (around February 6). About 47 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in February.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32292424
Feb32292424
Mar31282323
Apr28272222
May25252020
Jun25251919
Jul24241818
Aug24241919
Sep25252020
Oct25262121
Nov26262222
Dec30282323

Average hourly temperature in Iguaba Grande

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 February afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 18°C.

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

Iguaba Grande 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
Jan29° / 24°17815.413.25.0
Feb29° / 24°12211.712.85.2
Mar28° / 23°16316.112.25.2
Apr27° / 22°8511.511.56.4
May25° / 20°7410.910.96.9
Jun25° / 19°436.910.67.7
Jul24° / 18°457.810.77.7
Aug24° / 19°427.211.27.7
Sep25° / 20°741011.97.0
Oct26° / 21°9411.112.56.5
Nov26° / 22°17215.913.15.6
Dec28° / 23°18916.913.45.2

Chance of rain

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

Iguaba Grande gets about 1281 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 5.7 months, from around Oct 23 to Apr 12, peaking in December at about 56% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 23.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 189 mm over about 17 wet days; August is the driest, with 42 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 26 · 56%Jun 23 · 21%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4915
Feb4312
Mar5116
Apr3912
May3511
Jun247
Jul258
Aug247
Sep3210
Oct3711
Nov5216
Dec5417

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Iguaba Grande collects about 1281 mm of rain across 141 wet days — roughly 107 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 189 mm, while August is the driest at just 42 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec17812216385744345427494172189
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan17815
Feb12212
Mar16316
Apr8512
May7411
Jun437
Jul458
Aug427
Sep7410
Oct9411
Nov17216
Dec18917

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Iguaba Grande, 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 March 31 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around September 13. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 70% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 14 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around March 30. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 64% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 10 · 72%Dec 8 · 34%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4159
Feb4852
Mar4951
Apr6337
May6634
Jun7030
Jul6832
Aug6832
Sep5347
Oct4159
Nov3664
Dec3763

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 24 min of light; the shortest, around June 8, only 10 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.26:207:36
Feb12.86:407:27
Mar12.26:547:03
Apr11.57:056:33
May10.97:186:12
Jun10.67:316:07
Jul10.77:336:16
Aug11.27:176:29
Sep11.96:476:39
Oct12.56:186:50
Nov13.16:017:08
Dec13.46:037:27

Sunny days

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

Iguaba Grande averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.5 months, from around Apr 5 to Sep 17. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is November, down near 6 sunny days — about 64% fewer than the June peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightJun 1517 daysNov 95 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr14Mixed
May14Mixed
Jun16Bright
Jul17Bright
Aug17Bright
Sep12Mixed
Oct8Mixed
Nov6Gloomy
Dec7Gloomy

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 Iguaba Grande, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around October 20 to May 18. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around May 19 to October 19, and August is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 18% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 6 · 20%Jan 1 · 0%miserablemuggyoppressivehumidcomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan00197119
Feb00077518
Mar001146916
Apr001230563
May063146170
Jun110365030
Jul214463700
Aug316433810
Sep211344850
Oct172048240
Nov031437461
Dec004196710

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

The windier part of the year lasts 4.6 months, from around Jul 22 to Dec 8. The windiest month is September, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Feb 18 to Jul 21, with March the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmlight breezeSep 14 · 16 km/hMar 29 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar11calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul12light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep15light breeze
Oct15light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec12light breeze

Hazard calendar for Iguaba Grande

In seasonPeak

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

Iguaba Grande's rainy season runs October–March, 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 Iguaba Grande

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Iguaba Grande 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 Iguaba Grande for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid April to late October, with a peak score in the third week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 19 · 7.8

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
Jan5.0fair
Feb5.1fair
Mar5.3fair
Apr6.4good
May6.9good
Jun7.7ideal
Jul7.7ideal
Aug7.7ideal
Sep7.0good
Oct6.4good
Nov5.6good
Dec5.2fair

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 Iguaba Grande for hot-weather activities is from early December to early November, with a peak score in the third week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 20 · 6.9

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 Iguaba Grande, 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.

Iguaba Grande packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°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 February, Iguaba Grande sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 12 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Iguaba Grande

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 34 km away) is warmest in March at about 26°C and coldest in September near 22°C.

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

20°22°24°26°28°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan25Warm
Feb25Warm
Mar26Warm
Apr25Warm
May24Refreshing
Jun23Refreshing
Jul22Refreshing
Aug22Refreshing
Sep22Refreshing
Oct22Refreshing
Nov23Refreshing
Dec24Warm

UV index (midday) in Iguaba Grande 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 Iguaba Grande peaks around January 14 at about 14 (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 highHighVery highExtremeJan 14UV 14Jul 12UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr9Very high
May7High
Jun6High
Jul5Moderate
Aug8Very high
Sep7High
Oct12Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Iguaba Grande

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
Feb8.56.5
Mar86
Apr74.5
May62.5
Jun50
Jul50
Aug63
Sep6.53
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec97
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Iguaba Grande 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. Iguaba Grande banks about 5,001 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan499
Feb457
Mar490
Apr438
May392
Jun354
Jul351
Aug357
Sep367
Oct406
Nov416
Dec473

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.

Iguaba Grande receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.5 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Sep 21 to Mar 30. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.5 kWh/m² — roughly 43% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 36.3 kWhJun 263.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.3Intense
Mar5.3Bright
Apr4.7Bright
May3.8Moderate
Jun3.5Moderate
Jul3.6Moderate
Aug4.4Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov5.6Bright
Dec6.1Intense

Where is Iguaba Grande?

Iguaba Grande sits at 22.8°S, 42.2°W, 17 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Araruama, 12 km away.

Topography around Iguaba Grande

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Iguaba Grande has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 113 m around an average of 16 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 297 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,252 m.

The land around Iguaba Grande is covered by grassland (32%), water (26%) and artificial surfaces (25%) within 3 km, grassland (38%) and water (35%) within 16 km, and water (45%), trees (30%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
113 m
16 km
297 m
80 km
2,252 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Araruama 12 km · São Pedro da Aldeia 13 km · Cabo Frio 21 km · Arraial do Cabo 25 km · Saquarema 26 km · Silva Jardim 27 km · Buzios 37 km · Casimiro de Abreu 40 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 Iguaba Grande (-22.8392°, -42.2289°, elevation 17 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).