Climate and average weather in Santa Margarida

In Santa Margarida, the weather is humid, warm, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around December.

Best: late April to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Santa Margarida typically varies from 13°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 10°C or above 30°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 Santa Margarida for warm-weather activities is from late April to late September.

Hottest
Feb
28°
Coldest
Jul
13°
Wettest
Dec
255 mm
Driest
Jul
12 mm
Rain / yr
1257 mm
138 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
739 m
20.4°S
Clearest
Aug
46% cloud

Santa Margarida 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 late April to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Santa Margarida stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 28°C and low of 19°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 13°C and high of 23°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2719
Feb2819
Mar2718
Apr2617
May2415
Jun2313
Jul2313
Aug2413
Sep2515
Oct2516
Nov2517
Dec2618

Average hourly temperature in Santa Margarida

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 13°C.

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

Santa Margarida 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
Jan27° / 19°18216.413.15.3
Feb28° / 19°11712.712.75.6
Mar27° / 18°15716.512.15.4
Apr26° / 17°8012.411.56.3
May24° / 15°407.2117.3
Jun23° / 13°153.410.88.0
Jul23° / 13°12310.98.1
Aug24° / 13°204.411.38.1
Sep25° / 15°588.311.97.2
Oct25° / 16°11112.812.56.2
Nov25° / 17°21119.4135.0
Dec26° / 18°25521.713.24.7

Chance of rain

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

Santa Margarida gets about 1257 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 6.1 months, from around Oct 16 to Apr 20, peaking in December at about 72% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 29.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 255 mm over about 22 wet days; July is the driest, with 12 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 7 · 72%Jun 29 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5316
Feb4713
Mar5317
Apr4012
May247
Jun123
Jul103
Aug144
Sep278
Oct4213
Nov6519
Dec6922

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Santa Margarida collects about 1257 mm of rain across 138 wet days — roughly 105 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 255 mm, while July is the driest at just 12 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 52% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec182117157804015122058111211255
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan18216
Feb11713
Mar15717
Apr8012
May407
Jun153
Jul123
Aug204
Sep588
Oct11113
Nov21119
Dec25522

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Santa Margarida, 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 April 3 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around September 21. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 64% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 22 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around April 2. The cloudiest month is November, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 30 · 65%Dec 2 · 16%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2872
Feb3664
Mar3763
Apr4951
May5248
Jun6238
Jul6337
Aug6436
Sep5149
Oct3367
Nov2080
Dec2278

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

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.16:257:32
Feb12.76:437:24
Mar12.16:547:03
Apr11.57:036:35
May11.07:146:16
Jun10.87:266:12
Jul10.97:286:21
Aug11.37:146:32
Sep11.96:476:40
Oct12.56:206:48
Nov13.06:057:04
Dec13.26:087:22

Sunny days

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

Santa Margarida 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 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Apr 23 to Sep 28. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is December, down near 3 sunny days — about 80% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 3015 daysDec 12 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug14Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct6Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

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 Santa Margarida, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around October 19 to April 30. The muggiest month is December, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around May 1 to October 18, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 98% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 11 · 98%Dec 28 · 1%muggycomfortablehumiddryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan0244531
Feb0352451
Mar0345510
Apr21855250
May13473820
Jun28601200
Jul4750200
Aug4846600
Sep26482420
Oct93446110
Nov21553300
Dec0342540

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 Santa Margarida 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 22 · 8 km/hApr 18 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Santa Margarida

In seasonPeak

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

Santa Margarida's monsoon runs November–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Santa Margarida

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late April, Santa Margarida is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Santa Margarida for general outdoor tourist activities is from late April to late September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 3 · 8.1

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
Jan5.3fair
Feb5.6good
Mar5.5fair
Apr6.4good
May7.3good
Jun7.9ideal
Jul8.1ideal
Aug8.0ideal
Sep7.2good
Oct6.1good
Nov5.0fair
Dec4.7fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Santa Margarida for hot-weather activities run from mid January to early March and again from late March to late October, with a peak score in the first week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 1 · 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 Santa Margarida, 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.

Santa Margarida packs about the same all year — highs hold near 28°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, Santa Margarida sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Santa Margarida 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 Santa Margarida peaks around February 10 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 22 at about 7 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighVery highExtremeFeb 10UV 15Jun 22UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr10Extreme
May8Very high
Jun7High
Jul7High
Aug9Very high
Sep10Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Santa Margarida

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 February the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 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
Mar86.5
Apr75
May6.53.5
Jun62.5
Jul62.5
Aug6.54
Sep7.55.5
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec97
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Santa Margarida 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. Santa Margarida banks about 3,857 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)
Jan400
Feb367
Mar386
Apr333
May279
Jun241
Jul239
Aug259
Sep291
Oct338
Nov340
Dec383

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.

Santa Margarida receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.6 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Aug 31 to Mar 29. The brightest month is February, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.6 kWh/m² — roughly 39% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 76.0 kWhJun 203.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar5.1Bright
Apr4.3Bright
May3.8Moderate
Jun3.5Moderate
Jul3.7Moderate
Aug4.4Bright
Sep4.9Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov5.0Bright
Dec5.5Bright

Where is Santa Margarida?

Santa Margarida sits at 20.4°S, 42.3°W, 739 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Matipó, 15 km away.

Topography around Santa Margarida

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Santa Margarida has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 357 m around an average of 825 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,021 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,673 m.

The land around Santa Margarida is covered by trees (48%) and grassland (48%) within 3 km, trees (62%) and grassland (37%) within 16 km, and trees (50%) and grassland (49%) within 80 km.

3 km
357 m
16 km
1,021 m
80 km
2,673 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Matipó 15 km · Manhuaçu 27 km · Divino 28 km · Manhumirim 31 km · Raul Soares 38 km · Simonésia 39 km · Carangola 45 km · Espera Feliz 46 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 Santa Margarida (-20.3839°, -42.2506°, elevation 739 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).