Climate and average weather in Paraty

In Paraty, the weather is muggy, warm, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: mid April to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Paraty typically varies from 17°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 29°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 Paraty for warm-weather activities is from mid April to late September.

Hottest
Feb
27°
Coldest
Jul
17°
Wettest
Jan
543 mm
Driest
Aug
100 mm
Rain / yr
3369 mm
232 wet days
Daylight
10.6–13.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
8 m
23.2°S
Clearest
Jul
48% cloud

Paraty is human settlement in Brazil.

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

Paraty 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 September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Paraty stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 27°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 17°C and high of 22°C.

Days typically run about 4°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2623
Feb2723
Mar2622
Apr2521
May2319
Jun2218
Jul2217
Aug2218
Sep2218
Oct2319
Nov2420
Dec2522

Average hourly temperature in Paraty

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 17°C.

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

Paraty 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
Jan26° / 23°54327.913.33.9
Feb27° / 23°43223.712.84.1
Mar26° / 22°44626.412.24.2
Apr25° / 21°24219.211.55.4
May23° / 19°16616.210.95.9
Jun22° / 18°11611.810.66.5
Jul22° / 17°11310.710.76.7
Aug22° / 18°10010.911.26.6
Sep22° / 18°1881611.95.7
Oct23° / 19°2372012.55.0
Nov24° / 20°34523.413.14.6
Dec25° / 22°44226.113.44.2

Chance of rain

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

Paraty gets about 3369 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 6.0 months, from around Oct 15 to Apr 16, peaking in January at about 90% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 11.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 543 mm over about 28 wet days; August is the driest, with 100 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 7 · 90%Aug 11 · 35%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8928
Feb8524
Mar8426
Apr6519
May5216
Jun3912
Jul3511
Aug3611
Sep5216
Oct6620
Nov7723
Dec8426

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Paraty collects about 3369 mm of rain across 232 wet days — roughly 281 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 543 mm, while August is the driest at just 100 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550600JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec543432446242166116113100188237345442
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan54328
Feb43224
Mar44626
Apr24219
May16616
Jun11612
Jul11311
Aug10011
Sep18816
Oct23720
Nov34523
Dec44226

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Paraty, 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 30 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around September 16. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 57% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 17 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around March 29. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 80% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 11 · 58%Dec 5 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2278
Feb3070
Mar3565
Apr5050
May5149
Jun5644
Jul5743
Aug5545
Sep4060
Oct2674
Nov2080
Dec2080

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 5, 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)
Jan13.36:307:47
Feb12.86:497:37
Mar12.27:037:14
Apr11.57:156:43
May10.97:296:22
Jun10.67:426:17
Jul10.77:436:25
Aug11.27:276:39
Sep11.96:576:49
Oct12.56:277:00
Nov13.16:107:18
Dec13.46:127:38

Sunny days

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

Paraty averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.1 months, from around Apr 16 to Sep 18. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is December, down near 2 sunny days — about 84% fewer than the July peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightJul 1513 daysDec 32 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May10Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep8Mixed
Oct4Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

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 Paraty, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around October 15 to May 7. 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 8 to October 14, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 26% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 20 · 29%Jan 1 · 0%oppressivemuggyhumidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan00322705
Feb00218746
Mar00530632
Apr021744370
May111404260
Jun414523000
Jul620611200
Aug716562100
Sep313424020
Oct192550150
Nov052049260
Dec00835551

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 Paraty is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeSep 24 · 9 km/hFeb 10 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Paraty

In seasonPeak

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

Paraty's rainy season runs November–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 Paraty

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid September, Paraty 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 Paraty for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid April to late September, with a peak score in the last week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 28 · 6.7

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
Jan3.9fair
Feb4.1fair
Mar4.3fair
Apr5.4fair
May5.9good
Jun6.5good
Jul6.7good
Aug6.6good
Sep5.8good
Oct5.0fair
Nov4.6fair
Dec4.2fair

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 Paraty for hot-weather activities is from late January to late September, with a peak score in the last week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 24 · 5.0

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 Paraty, 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.

Paraty packs about the same all year — highs hold near 27°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, Paraty sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 23°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 24 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Paraty

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 14 km away) is warmest in February at about 27°C and coldest in August near 21°C.

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

20°22°24°26°28°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan27Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar27Warm
Apr26Warm
May24Warm
Jun23Refreshing
Jul22Refreshing
Aug21Refreshing
Sep22Refreshing
Oct23Refreshing
Nov23Refreshing
Dec25Warm

UV index (midday) in Paraty 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 Paraty peaks around January 21 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 11 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 21UV 14Jul 11UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr9Very high
May7High
Jun6High
Jul5High
Aug8Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct11Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Paraty

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
May62.5
Jun5.50
Jul50
Aug6.53.5
Sep6.53.5
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec97

Air quality in Paraty 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 Paraty is worst in September — around 18 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.0× the cleanest month (March, 9 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1517 µg/m³Mar 149 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb9Good
Mar9Good
Apr10Good
May12Good
Jun13Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct12Moderate
Nov10Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Paraty 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. Paraty banks about 4,341 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan451
Feb415
Mar435
Apr383
May334
Jun302
Jul293
Aug299
Sep308
Oct345
Nov358
Dec419

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.

Paraty receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.4 and 5.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Sep 26 to Mar 31. The brightest month is December, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.4 kWh/m² — roughly 41% less than the December peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 205.8 kWhJun 213.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar5.1Bright
Apr4.5Bright
May3.7Moderate
Jun3.4Moderate
Jul3.5Moderate
Aug4.3Bright
Sep4.7Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Paraty?

Paraty sits at 23.2°S, 44.7°W, 8 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Cunha, 30 km away.

Topography around Paraty

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Paraty has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 305 m around an average of 32 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,798 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,049 m.

The land around Paraty is covered by trees (46%) and water (41%) within 3 km, trees (68%) and water (28%) within 16 km, and trees (38%), water (38%) and grassland (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
305 m
16 km
1,798 m
80 km
2,049 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Cunha 30 km · Ubatuba 44 km · Angra dos Reis 47 km · Guaratinguetá 66 km · Aparecida 67 km · Cachoeira Paulista 69 km · Lorena 69 km · Potim 69 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 Paraty (-23.2178°, -44.7131°, elevation 8 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. 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).