Lapão weather in January

In January, Lapão sees average daytime highs of 30°C and overnight lows near 20°C, with 99 mm of rain across 8.8 wet days and about 12.6 hours of daylight. It is the 5th-warmest and 1st-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 30°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 28% of the time in January, and the air most often feels humid.

Daylight stretches from about 12 h 42 min at the start of January to 12 h 30 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, January is Lapão's 10th-clearest and 11th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Lapão's year-round climate.

Daytime high: 30°; 5th warmest
Overnight low: 20°; 10th coldest
Rainfall: 99 mm; 8.8 wet days
Daylight: 12 h 36 min; 5:39 AM – 6:15 PM
Cloud cover: 61%; 10th clearest
Wind: 11 km/h; 11th windiest
Solar energy: 6.35 kWh/m²
Travel score: 5.0; out of 10

Lapão is settlement in Brazil.

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

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Temperature in January

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 30°C through the month.

A typical January day in Lapão reaches about 30°C in the afternoon and slips back to 20°C overnight — a 10°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 27°C and 33°C. Set against its neighbours, January runs on par with December and on par with February.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Avg high (°C)	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30
Avg low (°C)	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	30	20
2	30	20
3	30	20
4	30	20
5	30	20
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30	30	20
31	30	20

Lapão weather by month

How January compares with the rest of the year at a glance. January is the 5th-warmest and 1st-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

Month	High / Low (°C)	Rainfall (mm)	Wet days	Daylight (hours)	Travel score
Jan	30° / 20°	99	8.8	12.6	5.0
Feb	30° / 20°	58	8.2	12.4	4.9
Mar	30° / 20°	74	8.1	12.1	5.1
Apr	30° / 20°	31	4.8	11.8	5.8
May	29° / 19°	9	1.6	11.5	6.7
Jun	27° / 18°	2	0.6	11.3	7.8
Jul	27° / 17°	2	0.2	11.4	8.1
Aug	28° / 17°	1	0.1	11.6	7.8
Sep	30° / 18°	3	0.4	11.9	6.4
Oct	31° / 19°	21	2.5	12.3	5.3
Nov	30° / 20°	80	7.8	12.5	4.9
Dec	30° / 20°	86	7.9	12.7	5.1

Cloud cover in January

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 28% of the time in January.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 19% of January, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 53%.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Clearer (%)	47	46	47	46	46	46	46	46	46	47	46	46	47	46	46	46	45	45	46	47	48	48	48	49	49	49	50	50	50	51	51
Cloudier (%)	53	54	53	54	54	54	54	54	54	53	54	54	53	54	54	54	55	55	54	53	52	52	52	51	51	51	50	50	50	49	49

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	47	53
2	46	54
3	47	53
4	46	54
5	46	54
6	46	54
7	46	54
8	46	54
9	46	54
10	47	53
11	46	54
12	46	54
13	47	53
14	46	54
15	46	54
16	46	54
17	45	55
18	45	55
19	46	54
20	47	53
21	48	52
22	48	52
23	48	52
24	49	51
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27	50	50
28	50	50
29	50	50
30	51	49
31	51	49

Chance of precipitation in January

Any precipitation

Lapão gets around 99 mm of rain over 8.8 wet days in January, the wettest month. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 29% and peaks near 32% on the wettest days.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Rain chance (%)	26	27	27	27	27	27	27	27	27	27	27	28	28	29	29	30	31	31	32	32	32	31	31	31	30	30	30	29	29	29	29

	Rain chance (%)
1	26
2	27
3	27
4	27
5	27
6	27
7	27
8	27
9	27
10	27
11	27
12	28
13	28
14	29
15	29
16	30
17	31
18	31
19	32
20	32
21	32
22	31
23	31
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25	30
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30	29
31	29

Humidity in January

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of January feels humid — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, January lands in the humid band about 54% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 33% of them.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Comfortable (%)	13	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	12	12	12	11
Humid (%)	60	60	60	59	60	59	59	59	58	58	56	56	56	54	53	53	52	51	51	49	49	49	50	50	51	51	53	54	54	54	56
Muggy (%)	27	28	28	29	29	30	30	30	31	31	32	32	32	33	34	34	35	36	36	37	37	36	36	36	35	35	34	34	34	34	33
Oppressive (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0

	Comfortable (%)	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	13	60	27	0
2	12	60	28	0
3	12	60	28	0
4	12	59	29	0
5	11	60	29	0
6	11	59	30	0
7	11	59	30	0
8	11	59	30	0
9	11	58	31	0
10	11	58	31	0
11	12	56	32	0
12	12	56	32	0
13	12	56	32	0
14	13	54	33	0
15	13	53	34	0
16	13	53	34	0
17	13	52	35	0
18	13	51	36	0
19	13	51	36	0
20	14	49	37	0
21	14	49	37	1
22	14	49	36	1
23	14	50	36	1
24	14	50	36	1
25	13	51	35	1
26	13	51	35	1
27	13	53	34	0
28	12	54	34	0
29	12	54	34	0
30	12	54	34	0
31	11	56	33	0

Wind in January

Winds average 11 km/h in January.

Across January, daily wind ranges from about 11 km/h on the calmest days to 11 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Wind speed (km/h)	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
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	Wind speed (km/h)	Feels
1	11	calm
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31	11	calm

Sunrise & sunset in January

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 12 h 42 min at the start of January to 12 h 30 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 12 minutes over January. Sunrise moves from 5:31 AM to 5:46 AM, and sunset from 6:10 PM to 6:16 PM.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Daylight (h)	12.7	12.7	12.7	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5
Sunrise (AM)	5:31	5:31	5:32	5:32	5:33	5:33	5:34	5:34	5:35	5:36	5:36	5:37	5:37	5:38	5:38	5:39	5:39	5:40	5:40	5:41	5:41	5:42	5:42	5:43	5:43	5:43	5:44	5:44	5:45	5:45	5:46
Sunset (PM)	6:10	6:11	6:11	6:11	6:12	6:12	6:12	6:13	6:13	6:13	6:13	6:14	6:14	6:14	6:14	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:16	6:16	6:16	6:16	6:16	6:16	6:16	6:16	6:16	6:16

	Daylight (h)	Sunrise (AM)	Sunset (PM)
1	12.7	5:31	6:10
2	12.7	5:31	6:11
3	12.7	5:32	6:11
4	12.6	5:32	6:11
5	12.6	5:33	6:12
6	12.6	5:33	6:12
7	12.6	5:34	6:12
8	12.6	5:34	6:13
9	12.6	5:35	6:13
10	12.6	5:36	6:13
11	12.6	5:36	6:13
12	12.6	5:37	6:14
13	12.6	5:37	6:14
14	12.6	5:38	6:14
15	12.6	5:38	6:14
16	12.6	5:39	6:15
17	12.6	5:39	6:15
18	12.6	5:40	6:15
19	12.6	5:40	6:15
20	12.6	5:41	6:15
21	12.6	5:41	6:15
22	12.6	5:42	6:16
23	12.6	5:42	6:16
24	12.6	5:43	6:16
25	12.5	5:43	6:16
26	12.5	5:43	6:16
27	12.5	5:44	6:16
28	12.5	5:44	6:16
29	12.5	5:45	6:16
30	12.5	5:45	6:16
31	12.5	5:46	6:16

Solar energy in January

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in January, about 6.35 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 4.26 kWh/m² to a high of 6.82 kWh/m² in October across the year — January's 6.35 kWh/m² sits near the top of that range.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Solar energy (kWh/m²)	6.5	6.5	6.4	6.4	6.4	6.4	6.4	6.4	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.4	6.4	6.4	6.4
Level	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense

	Solar energy (kWh/m²)	Level
1	6.5	Intense
2	6.5	Intense
3	6.4	Intense
4	6.4	Intense
5	6.4	Intense
6	6.4	Intense
7	6.4	Intense
8	6.4	Intense
9	6.3	Intense
10	6.3	Intense
11	6.3	Intense
12	6.3	Intense
13	6.3	Intense
14	6.3	Intense
15	6.3	Intense
16	6.3	Intense
17	6.3	Intense
18	6.3	Intense
19	6.3	Intense
20	6.3	Intense
21	6.3	Intense
22	6.3	Intense
23	6.3	Intense
24	6.3	Intense
25	6.3	Intense
26	6.3	Intense
27	6.3	Intense
28	6.4	Intense
29	6.4	Intense
30	6.4	Intense
31	6.4	Intense

Planning a trip in January

Is January a good time to visit Lapão?

Our two travel scores rate January for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

5.0

Sightseeing

10th-best month of the year

6.9

Beach & pool

11th-best month of the year

January is a reasonable time to visit Lapão for sightseeing. The water and warmth also suit a beach or pool day.

What to pack for Lapão in January

From January's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In January, Lapão sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

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UV index in Lapão in January

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in January peaks around 14 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Lapão peaks around March 10 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 23 at about 9 (very high).

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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
UV index (midday)	14	15	15	13	10	9	9	11	13	13	13	13
Level	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Very high	Very high	Very high	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme

	UV index (midday)	Level
Jan	14	Extreme
Feb	15	Extreme
Mar	15	Extreme
Apr	13	Extreme
May	10	Very high
Jun	9	Very high
Jul	9	Very high
Aug	11	Extreme
Sep	13	Extreme
Oct	13	Extreme
Nov	13	Extreme
Dec	13	Extreme

Location & terrain

Where is Lapão?

Lapão sits at 11.4°S, 41.8°W, 775 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Irecê, 9.0 km away.

Topography around Lapão

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lapão has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 101 m around an average of 775 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 236 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,238 m.

The land around Lapão is covered by cropland (59%) and shrubs (25%) within 3 km, cropland (59%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and shrubs (59%) and cropland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km

101 m

cropland 59%

16 km

236 m

cropland 59%

80 km

1,238 m

shrubs 59%

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← December Lapão year-round climate February →Best places to visit in January

January weather nearby: Irecê 9.0 km · São Gabriel 18 km · João Dourado 19 km · Presidente Dutra 19 km · Ibititá 24 km · Canarana 34 km · Ibipeba 35 km · Jussara 41 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

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 Lapão (-11.3833°, -41.8319°, elevation 775 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	30	20
2	30	20
3	30	20
4	30	20
5	30	20
6	30	20
7	30	20
8	30	20
9	30	20
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18	30	20
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20	30	20
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22	30	20
23	30	20
24	30	20
25	30	20
26	30	20
27	30	20
28	30	20
29	30	20
30	30	20
31	30	20

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	47	53
2	46	54
3	47	53
4	46	54
5	46	54
6	46	54
7	46	54
8	46	54
9	46	54
10	47	53
11	46	54
12	46	54
13	47	53
14	46	54
15	46	54
16	46	54
17	45	55
18	45	55
19	46	54
20	47	53
21	48	52
22	48	52
23	48	52
24	49	51
25	49	51
26	49	51
27	50	50
28	50	50
29	50	50
30	51	49
31	51	49

	Rain chance (%)
1	26
2	27
3	27
4	27
5	27
6	27
7	27
8	27
9	27
10	27
11	27
12	28
13	28
14	29
15	29
16	30
17	31
18	31
19	32
20	32
21	32
22	31
23	31
24	31
25	30
26	30
27	30
28	29
29	29
30	29
31	29

	Comfortable (%)	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	13	60	27	0
2	12	60	28	0
3	12	60	28	0
4	12	59	29	0
5	11	60	29	0
6	11	59	30	0
7	11	59	30	0
8	11	59	30	0
9	11	58	31	0
10	11	58	31	0
11	12	56	32	0
12	12	56	32	0
13	12	56	32	0
14	13	54	33	0
15	13	53	34	0
16	13	53	34	0
17	13	52	35	0
18	13	51	36	0
19	13	51	36	0
20	14	49	37	0
21	14	49	37	1
22	14	49	36	1
23	14	50	36	1
24	14	50	36	1
25	13	51	35	1
26	13	51	35	1
27	13	53	34	0
28	12	54	34	0
29	12	54	34	0
30	12	54	34	0
31	11	56	33	0

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	30	20
2	30	20
3	30	20
4	30	20
5	30	20
6	30	20
7	30	20
8	30	20
9	30	20
10	30	20
11	30	20
12	30	20
13	30	20
14	30	20
15	30	20
16	30	20
17	30	20
18	30	20
19	30	20
20	30	20
21	30	20
22	30	20
23	30	20
24	30	20
25	30	20
26	30	20
27	30	20
28	30	20
29	30	20
30	30	20
31	30	20

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	47	53
2	46	54
3	47	53
4	46	54
5	46	54
6	46	54
7	46	54
8	46	54
9	46	54
10	47	53
11	46	54
12	46	54
13	47	53
14	46	54
15	46	54
16	46	54
17	45	55
18	45	55
19	46	54
20	47	53
21	48	52
22	48	52
23	48	52
24	49	51
25	49	51
26	49	51
27	50	50
28	50	50
29	50	50
30	51	49
31	51	49

	Rain chance (%)
1	26
2	27
3	27
4	27
5	27
6	27
7	27
8	27
9	27
10	27
11	27
12	28
13	28
14	29
15	29
16	30
17	31
18	31
19	32
20	32
21	32
22	31
23	31
24	31
25	30
26	30
27	30
28	29
29	29
30	29
31	29

	Comfortable (%)	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	13	60	27	0
2	12	60	28	0
3	12	60	28	0
4	12	59	29	0
5	11	60	29	0
6	11	59	30	0
7	11	59	30	0
8	11	59	30	0
9	11	58	31	0
10	11	58	31	0
11	12	56	32	0
12	12	56	32	0
13	12	56	32	0
14	13	54	33	0
15	13	53	34	0
16	13	53	34	0
17	13	52	35	0
18	13	51	36	0
19	13	51	36	0
20	14	49	37	0
21	14	49	37	1
22	14	49	36	1
23	14	50	36	1
24	14	50	36	1
25	13	51	35	1
26	13	51	35	1
27	13	53	34	0
28	12	54	34	0
29	12	54	34	0
30	12	54	34	0
31	11	56	33	0

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	30	20
2	30	20
3	30	20
4	30	20
5	30	20
6	30	20
7	30	20
8	30	20
9	30	20
10	30	20
11	30	20
12	30	20
13	30	20
14	30	20
15	30	20
16	30	20
17	30	20
18	30	20
19	30	20
20	30	20
21	30	20
22	30	20
23	30	20
24	30	20
25	30	20
26	30	20
27	30	20
28	30	20
29	30	20
30	30	20
31	30	20

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	47	53
2	46	54
3	47	53
4	46	54
5	46	54
6	46	54
7	46	54
8	46	54
9	46	54
10	47	53
11	46	54
12	46	54
13	47	53
14	46	54
15	46	54
16	46	54
17	45	55
18	45	55
19	46	54
20	47	53
21	48	52
22	48	52
23	48	52
24	49	51
25	49	51
26	49	51
27	50	50
28	50	50
29	50	50
30	51	49
31	51	49

	Rain chance (%)
1	26
2	27
3	27
4	27
5	27
6	27
7	27
8	27
9	27
10	27
11	27
12	28
13	28
14	29
15	29
16	30
17	31
18	31
19	32
20	32
21	32
22	31
23	31
24	31
25	30
26	30
27	30
28	29
29	29
30	29
31	29

	Comfortable (%)	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	13	60	27	0
2	12	60	28	0
3	12	60	28	0
4	12	59	29	0
5	11	60	29	0
6	11	59	30	0
7	11	59	30	0
8	11	59	30	0
9	11	58	31	0
10	11	58	31	0
11	12	56	32	0
12	12	56	32	0
13	12	56	32	0
14	13	54	33	0
15	13	53	34	0
16	13	53	34	0
17	13	52	35	0
18	13	51	36	0
19	13	51	36	0
20	14	49	37	0
21	14	49	37	1
22	14	49	36	1
23	14	50	36	1
24	14	50	36	1
25	13	51	35	1
26	13	51	35	1
27	13	53	34	0
28	12	54	34	0
29	12	54	34	0
30	12	54	34	0
31	11	56	33	0