Poção de Pedras weather in August

In August, Poção de Pedras sees average daytime highs of 34°C and overnight lows near 22°C, with 5 mm of rain across 0.9 wet days and about 11.8 hours of daylight. It is the 4th-warmest and 12th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 34°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 69% of the time in August, and the air most often feels muggy.

Daylight stretches from about 11 h 48 min at the start of August to 11 h 54 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, August is Poção de Pedras's 1st-clearest and 1st-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Poção de Pedras's year-round climate.

Daytime high
34°
4th warmest
Overnight low
22°
2nd coldest
Rainfall
5 mm
0.9 wet days
Daylight
11 h 48 min
6:09 AM – 5:59 PM
Cloud cover
33%
1st clearest
Wind
8 km/h
1st windiest
Solar energy
5.99 kWh/m²
Travel score
3.9
out of 10

Poção de Pedras is settlement in Brazil.

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

Temperature in August

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 34°C through the month.

A typical August day in Poção de Pedras reaches about 34°C in the afternoon and slips back to 22°C overnight — a 11°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 33°C and 35°C. Set against its neighbours, August runs about 1°C warmer than July and about 1°C cooler than September.

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Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
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How August really feels in Poção de Pedras

Once humidity and wind are folded in, August averages 31 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
31
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in August is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Poção de Pedras weather by month

How August compares with the rest of the year at a glance. August is the 4th-warmest and 12th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan31° / 23°22026.412.22.7
Feb31° / 23°2392512.22.7
Mar31° / 23°26728.5122.6
Apr31° / 23°20925.811.92.8
May31° / 23°10016.311.83.8
Jun32° / 22°204.811.74.8
Jul33° / 22°101.911.84.6
Aug34° / 22°50.911.83.9
Sep35° / 23°91.9123.3
Oct35° / 24°203.912.13.0
Nov34° / 24°5710.212.23.0
Dec33° / 24°1221712.32.9

Cloud cover in August

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 69% of the time in August, the clearest month of the year.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 21% of August, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 10%.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
19010
2919
3919
4919
5919
6919
79010
89010
99010
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119010
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Chance of precipitation in August

Any precipitation

Poção de Pedras gets around 5 mm of rain over 0.9 wet days in August, the driest month. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 3% and peaks near 4% on the wettest days.

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Rain chance (%)
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22
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Humidity in August

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

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

By dew point, August lands in the muggy band about 38% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 70% of them.

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Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
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43343925
53333926
63323827
73313828
83313829
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243224035
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263194137
273184237
282174238
292164339
302164339
312154440

Wind in August

Winds average 8 km/h in August, the windiest month of the year.

Across August, daily wind ranges from about 8 km/h on the calmest days to 8 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
18calm
28calm
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68calm
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128calm
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318calm

Sunrise & sunset in August

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 11 h 48 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 6 minutes over August. Sunrise moves from 6:12 AM to 6:03 AM, and sunset from 6:00 PM to 5:57 PM.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AM151015202531
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
111.86:126:00
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311.86:126:00
411.86:126:00
511.86:116:00
611.86:116:00
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Solar energy in August

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in August, about 5.99 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 4.39 kWh/m² to a high of 6.27 kWh/m² in September across the year — August's 5.99 kWh/m² sits near the top of that range.

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Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
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296.1Intense
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316.2Intense
Planning a trip in August

Hazard calendar for Poção de Pedras

In seasonPeak

None of Poção de Pedras's seasonal hazards are active in August. The full-year calendar below shows when the rainy season, cyclone risk and dust haze do peak.

Poção de Pedras's monsoon runs December–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon
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Aug
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Is August a good time to visit Poção de Pedras?

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

3.9
Sightseeing
3rd-best month of the year
7.7
Beach & pool
2nd-best month of the year

August is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Poção de Pedras. The water and warmth also suit a beach or pool day.

What to pack for Poção de Pedras in August

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

In August, Poção de Pedras sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

light clothessun protection

UV index in Poção de Pedras 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 Poção de Pedras peaks around March 13 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 17 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 13UV 15Jul 17UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Very high
Aug10Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Air quality in Poção de Pedras in August

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where August falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Poção de Pedras is worst in November — around 27 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.2× the cleanest month (June, 9 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateNov 1426 µg/m³Jun 189 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan15Moderate
Feb15Moderate
Mar14Moderate
Apr13Moderate
May11Good
Jun9Good
Jul10Good
Aug10Good
Sep13Moderate
Oct22Moderate
Nov27Moderate
Dec20Moderate
Location & terrain

Where is Poção de Pedras?

Poção de Pedras sits at 4.8°S, 44.9°W, 92 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Esperantinópolis, 16 km away.

Topography around Poção de Pedras

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Poção de Pedras has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 174 m around an average of 85 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 220 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 406 m.

The land around Poção de Pedras is covered by grassland (64%) and trees (32%) within 3 km, grassland (56%) and trees (43%) within 16 km, and grassland (53%) and trees (46%) within 80 km.

3 km
174 m
16 km
220 m
80 km
406 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaces
August weather nearby: Esperantinópolis 16 km · Lago da Pedra 30 km · Trizidela do Vale 41 km · Pedreiras 44 km · Paulo Ramos 47 km · São Luís Gonzaga do Maranhão 51 km · Bacabal 60 km · Vitorino Freire 61 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 Poção de Pedras (-4.7518°, -44.9438°, elevation 92 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).