Picuí weather in August

In August, Picuí sees average daytime highs of 29°C and overnight lows near 19°C, with 9 mm of rain across 1.7 wet days and about 11.8 hours of daylight. It is the 10th-warmest and 9th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 29°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 37% of the time in August, and the air most often feels humid.

Daylight stretches from about 11 h 42 min at the start of August to 11 h 54 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, August is Picuí's 4th-clearest and 3rd-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Picuí's year-round climate.

Daytime high: 29°; 10th warmest
Overnight low: 19°; 1st coldest
Rainfall: 9 mm; 1.7 wet days
Daylight: 11 h 48 min; 5:36 AM – 5:23 PM
Cloud cover: 47%; 4th clearest
Wind: 20 km/h; 3rd windiest
Solar energy: 5.42 kWh/m²
Travel score: 6.8; out of 10

Picuí is human settlement in Brazil.

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

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Temperature in August

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 29°C through the month.

A typical August day in Picuí reaches about 29°C in the afternoon and slips back to 19°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 30°C. Set against its neighbours, August runs about 1°C warmer than July and about 1°C cooler than September.

	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)	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29
Avg low (°C)	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19

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

How August really feels in Picuí

Once humidity and wind are folded in, August averages 0 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C

heat index over the day's high

Days feeling ≤ 0°C

wind chill below the day's low

August sits comfortably in between — no days that feel dangerously hot or drop to a hard freeze once humidity and wind are folded in.

Picuí weather by month

How August compares with the rest of the year at a glance. August is the 10th-warmest and 9th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

Month	High / Low (°C)	Rainfall (mm)	Wet days	Daylight (hours)	Travel score
Jan	31° / 21°	35	8	12.3	4.6
Feb	31° / 21°	41	9	12.2	4.4
Mar	31° / 21°	64	12.5	12	4.3
Apr	30° / 21°	61	11.4	11.9	4.7
May	29° / 21°	39	8.2	11.7	5.5
Jun	28° / 20°	28	6.4	11.6	6.5
Jul	28° / 19°	23	4.8	11.7	7.1
Aug	29° / 19°	9	1.7	11.8	6.8
Sep	30° / 19°	3	0.9	12	6.2
Oct	31° / 20°	3	0.7	12.1	5.6
Nov	31° / 20°	4	1.2	12.3	5.3
Dec	31° / 21°	11	2.9	12.4	5.0

Cloud cover in August

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 37% of the time in August.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 30% of August, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 33%.

	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 (%)	61	61	62	63	64	64	65	65	65	66	65	65	65	64	64	64	64	65	65	66	67	68	69	71	72	73	74	75	75	77	77
Cloudier (%)	39	39	38	37	36	36	35	35	35	34	35	35	35	36	36	36	36	35	35	34	33	32	31	29	28	27	26	25	25	23	23

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	61	39
2	61	39
3	62	38
4	63	37
5	64	36
6	64	36
7	65	35
8	65	35
9	65	35
10	66	34
11	65	35
12	65	35
13	65	35
14	64	36
15	64	36
16	64	36
17	64	36
18	65	35
19	65	35
20	66	34
21	67	33
22	68	32
23	69	31
24	71	29
25	72	28
26	73	27
27	74	26
28	75	25
29	75	25
30	77	23
31	77	23

Chance of precipitation in August

Any precipitation

Picuí gets around 9 mm of rain over 1.7 wet days in August. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 6% and peaks near 8% 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 (%)	8	8	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4

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

Humidity in August

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

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

By dew point, August lands in the humid band about 76% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 18% 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 (%)	5	5	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	7
Humid (%)	71	72	71	72	73	73	73	74	74	74	74	74	75	76	76	77	77	77	77	78	78	78	78	78	78	78	78	78	78	77	77
Muggy (%)	24	23	23	22	21	20	20	19	19	18	18	18	17	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

	Comfortable (%)	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)
1	5	71	24
2	5	72	23
3	6	71	23
4	6	72	22
5	6	73	21
6	7	73	20
7	7	73	20
8	7	74	19
9	7	74	19
10	8	74	18
11	8	74	18
12	8	74	18
13	8	75	17
14	7	76	17
15	7	76	17
16	7	77	16
17	7	77	16
18	7	77	16
19	7	77	16
20	6	78	16
21	6	78	16
22	6	78	16
23	6	78	16
24	6	78	16
25	6	78	16
26	6	78	16
27	6	78	16
28	6	78	16
29	6	78	16
30	7	77	16
31	7	77	16

Wind in August

Winds average 20 km/h in August.

Across August, daily wind ranges from about 20 km/h on the calmest days to 21 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)	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	21	21	21
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	Wind speed (km/h)	Feels
1	20	light breeze
2	20	light breeze
3	20	light breeze
4	20	light breeze
5	20	light breeze
6	20	light breeze
7	20	light breeze
8	20	light breeze
9	20	light breeze
10	20	light breeze
11	20	light breeze
12	20	breezy
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27	20	breezy
28	20	breezy
29	21	breezy
30	21	breezy
31	21	breezy

Sunrise & sunset in August

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 11 h 42 min at the start of August to 11 h 54 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 12 minutes over August. Sunrise moves from 5:40 AM to 5:29 AM, and sunset from 5:23 PM to 5:21 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)	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.8	11.9	11.9	11.9	11.9
Sunrise (AM)	5:40	5:40	5:40	5:39	5:39	5:39	5:39	5:38	5:38	5:38	5:38	5:37	5:37	5:37	5:36	5:36	5:36	5:35	5:35	5:34	5:34	5:34	5:33	5:33	5:32	5:32	5:31	5:31	5:30	5:30	5:29
Sunset (PM)	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:23	5:22	5:22	5:22	5:22	5:22	5:22	5:22	5:22	5:21

	Daylight (h)	Sunrise (AM)	Sunset (PM)
1	11.7	5:40	5:23
2	11.7	5:40	5:23
3	11.7	5:40	5:23
4	11.7	5:39	5:23
5	11.7	5:39	5:23
6	11.7	5:39	5:23
7	11.7	5:39	5:23
8	11.7	5:38	5:23
9	11.7	5:38	5:23
10	11.8	5:38	5:23
11	11.8	5:38	5:23
12	11.8	5:37	5:23
13	11.8	5:37	5:23
14	11.8	5:37	5:23
15	11.8	5:36	5:23
16	11.8	5:36	5:23
17	11.8	5:36	5:23
18	11.8	5:35	5:23
19	11.8	5:35	5:23
20	11.8	5:34	5:23
21	11.8	5:34	5:23
22	11.8	5:34	5:23
23	11.8	5:33	5:22
24	11.8	5:33	5:22
25	11.8	5:32	5:22
26	11.8	5:32	5:22
27	11.8	5:31	5:22
28	11.9	5:31	5:22
29	11.9	5:30	5:22
30	11.9	5:30	5:22
31	11.9	5:29	5:21

Solar energy in August

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in August, about 5.42 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 4.51 kWh/m² to a high of 6.74 kWh/m² in October across the year — August's 5.42 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

	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)	5.0	5.0	5.1	5.1	5.1	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.8	5.8
Level	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright

	Solar energy (kWh/m²)	Level
1	5.0	Bright
2	5.0	Bright
3	5.1	Bright
4	5.1	Bright
5	5.1	Bright
6	5.2	Bright
7	5.2	Bright
8	5.2	Bright
9	5.2	Bright
10	5.3	Bright
11	5.3	Bright
12	5.3	Bright
13	5.3	Bright
14	5.3	Bright
15	5.4	Bright
16	5.4	Bright
17	5.4	Bright
18	5.4	Bright
19	5.5	Bright
20	5.5	Bright
21	5.5	Bright
22	5.5	Bright
23	5.6	Bright
24	5.6	Bright
25	5.6	Bright
26	5.7	Bright
27	5.7	Bright
28	5.7	Bright
29	5.7	Bright
30	5.8	Bright
31	5.8	Bright

Planning a trip in August

Is August a good time to visit Picuí?

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

6.8

Sightseeing

2nd-best month of the year

8.4

Beach & pool

2nd-best month of the year

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

What to pack for Picuí in August

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

In August, Picuí sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection and a windbreaker.

light clothessun protectiona windbreaker

UV index in Picuí in August

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in August peaks around 10 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Picuí peaks around March 13 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 16 at about 10 (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	16	14	11	10	10	10	13	12	12	12
Level	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Very high	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme

	UV index (midday)	Level
Jan	14	Extreme
Feb	15	Extreme
Mar	16	Extreme
Apr	14	Extreme
May	11	Extreme
Jun	10	Extreme
Jul	10	Very high
Aug	10	Extreme
Sep	13	Extreme
Oct	12	Extreme
Nov	12	Extreme
Dec	12	Extreme

Location & terrain

Where is Picuí?

Picuí sits at 6.5°S, 36.3°W, 445 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Cuité, 22 km away.

Topography around Picuí

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Picuí has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 185 m around an average of 455 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 367 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 793 m.

The land around Picuí is covered by shrubs (70%) within 3 km, shrubs (71%) and grassland (24%) within 16 km, and shrubs (73%) and grassland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km

185 m

shrubs 70%

16 km

367 m

shrubs 71%

80 km

793 m

shrubs 73%

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← July Picuí year-round climate September →Best places to visit in August

August weather nearby: Cuité 22 km · Currais Novos 34 km · Parelhas 40 km · Santa Cruz 48 km · Lagoa Nova 48 km · Cacimba de Dentro 63 km · Araruna 67 km · Pocinhos 70 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 Picuí (-6.5106°, -36.3469°, elevation 445 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	28	19
2	28	19
3	28	19
4	28	19
5	28	19
6	28	19
7	28	19
8	28	19
9	29	19
10	29	19
11	29	19
12	29	19
13	29	19
14	29	19
15	29	19
16	29	19
17	29	19
18	29	19
19	29	19
20	29	19
21	29	19
22	29	19
23	29	19
24	29	19
25	29	19
26	29	19
27	29	19
28	29	19
29	29	19
30	29	19
31	29	19

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	61	39
2	61	39
3	62	38
4	63	37
5	64	36
6	64	36
7	65	35
8	65	35
9	65	35
10	66	34
11	65	35
12	65	35
13	65	35
14	64	36
15	64	36
16	64	36
17	64	36
18	65	35
19	65	35
20	66	34
21	67	33
22	68	32
23	69	31
24	71	29
25	72	28
26	73	27
27	74	26
28	75	25
29	75	25
30	77	23
31	77	23

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

	Comfortable (%)	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)
1	5	71	24
2	5	72	23
3	6	71	23
4	6	72	22
5	6	73	21
6	7	73	20
7	7	73	20
8	7	74	19
9	7	74	19
10	8	74	18
11	8	74	18
12	8	74	18
13	8	75	17
14	7	76	17
15	7	76	17
16	7	77	16
17	7	77	16
18	7	77	16
19	7	77	16
20	6	78	16
21	6	78	16
22	6	78	16
23	6	78	16
24	6	78	16
25	6	78	16
26	6	78	16
27	6	78	16
28	6	78	16
29	6	78	16
30	7	77	16
31	7	77	16

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

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	61	39
2	61	39
3	62	38
4	63	37
5	64	36
6	64	36
7	65	35
8	65	35
9	65	35
10	66	34
11	65	35
12	65	35
13	65	35
14	64	36
15	64	36
16	64	36
17	64	36
18	65	35
19	65	35
20	66	34
21	67	33
22	68	32
23	69	31
24	71	29
25	72	28
26	73	27
27	74	26
28	75	25
29	75	25
30	77	23
31	77	23

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

	Comfortable (%)	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)
1	5	71	24
2	5	72	23
3	6	71	23
4	6	72	22
5	6	73	21
6	7	73	20
7	7	73	20
8	7	74	19
9	7	74	19
10	8	74	18
11	8	74	18
12	8	74	18
13	8	75	17
14	7	76	17
15	7	76	17
16	7	77	16
17	7	77	16
18	7	77	16
19	7	77	16
20	6	78	16
21	6	78	16
22	6	78	16
23	6	78	16
24	6	78	16
25	6	78	16
26	6	78	16
27	6	78	16
28	6	78	16
29	6	78	16
30	7	77	16
31	7	77	16

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

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	61	39
2	61	39
3	62	38
4	63	37
5	64	36
6	64	36
7	65	35
8	65	35
9	65	35
10	66	34
11	65	35
12	65	35
13	65	35
14	64	36
15	64	36
16	64	36
17	64	36
18	65	35
19	65	35
20	66	34
21	67	33
22	68	32
23	69	31
24	71	29
25	72	28
26	73	27
27	74	26
28	75	25
29	75	25
30	77	23
31	77	23

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

	Comfortable (%)	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)
1	5	71	24
2	5	72	23
3	6	71	23
4	6	72	22
5	6	73	21
6	7	73	20
7	7	73	20
8	7	74	19
9	7	74	19
10	8	74	18
11	8	74	18
12	8	74	18
13	8	75	17
14	7	76	17
15	7	76	17
16	7	77	16
17	7	77	16
18	7	77	16
19	7	77	16
20	6	78	16
21	6	78	16
22	6	78	16
23	6	78	16
24	6	78	16
25	6	78	16
26	6	78	16
27	6	78	16
28	6	78	16
29	6	78	16
30	7	77	16
31	7	77	16