Climate and average weather in São João da Boa Vista

In São João da Boa Vista, the weather is humid, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: late April to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in São João da Boa Vista typically varies from 12°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 8°C or above 33°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while June is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit São João da Boa Vista for warm-weather activities is from late April to mid September.

Hottest
Feb
28°
Coldest
Jun
13°
Wettest
Jan
282 mm
Driest
Aug
26 mm
Rain / yr
1532 mm
158 wet days
Daylight
10.7–13.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
774 m
22.0°S
Clearest
Aug
32% cloud

São João da Boa Vista is human settlement in Brazil.

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

São João da Boa Vista 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 mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in São João da Boa Vista 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 June, with an average low of 13°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in August.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2819
Feb2819
Mar2818
Apr2717
May2414
Jun2413
Jul2412
Aug2613
Sep2716
Oct2818
Nov2718
Dec2819

Average hourly temperature in São João da Boa Vista

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 June, near 13°C.

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

São João da Boa Vista 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
Jan28° / 19°2822413.24.2
Feb28° / 19°21120.112.84.4
Mar28° / 18°1832012.25.0
Apr27° / 17°8010.211.56.7
May24° / 14°576.4117.7
Jun24° / 13°324.210.78.3
Jul24° / 12°273.310.88.5
Aug26° / 13°263.711.28.2
Sep27° / 16°778.711.96.9
Oct28° / 18°12214.712.55.5
Nov27° / 18°19119.413.14.9
Dec28° / 19°24523.413.34.4

Chance of rain

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

São João da Boa Vista gets about 1532 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 5.8 months, from around Oct 11 to Apr 6, peaking in December at about 79% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 1.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 282 mm over about 24 wet days; August is the driest, with 26 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 28 · 79%Aug 1 · 10%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7724
Feb7220
Mar6420
Apr3410
May216
Jun144
Jul113
Aug124
Sep299
Oct4815
Nov6419
Dec7523

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, São João da Boa Vista collects about 1532 mm of rain across 158 wet days — roughly 128 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 282 mm, while August is the driest at just 26 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 48% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec282211183805732272677122191245
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan28224
Feb21120
Mar18320
Apr8010
May576
Jun324
Jul273
Aug264
Sep779
Oct12215
Nov19119
Dec24523

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In São João da Boa Vista, 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 6.1 months, ending around October 2. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 77% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 3 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around March 29. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 73% 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 23 · 79%Jan 6 · 25%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2773
Feb3565
Mar4753
Apr6337
May6535
Jun7228
Jul7525
Aug7723
Sep6634
Oct4654
Nov3862
Dec3169

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 18 min of light; the shortest, around June 2, only 10 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.26:407:53
Feb12.86:597:44
Mar12.27:127:22
Apr11.57:236:52
May11.07:356:32
Jun10.77:476:27
Jul10.87:496:36
Aug11.27:346:48
Sep11.97:056:58
Oct12.56:377:08
Nov13.16:207:25
Dec13.36:237:43

Sunny days

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

São João da Boa Vista averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Apr 9 to Oct 4. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 3 sunny days — about 84% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 2220 daysJan 33 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar8Gloomy
Apr13Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun17Bright
Jul19Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep15Bright
Oct9Mixed
Nov6Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

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 São João da Boa Vista, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around October 13 to April 22. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 23 to October 12, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 11 · 99%Jan 9 · 2%muggycomfortablehumiddryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan0329680
Feb0432631
Mar1641530
Apr92645200
May37422010
Jun6034600
Jul7722100
Aug7918300
Sep48312010
Oct182743120
Nov52144300
Dec0734580

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 São João da Boa Vista 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 19 · 8 km/hMar 28 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for São João da Boa Vista

In seasonPeak

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

São João da Boa Vista'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 São João da Boa Vista

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late April, São João da Boa Vista 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 São João da Boa Vista for general outdoor tourist activities is from late April to mid September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 25 · 8.6

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
Jan4.3fair
Feb4.4fair
Mar5.0fair
Apr6.7good
May7.7ideal
Jun8.2ideal
Jul8.5ideal
Aug8.2ideal
Sep6.9good
Oct5.5good
Nov4.9fair
Dec4.4fair

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 São João da Boa Vista for hot-weather activities is from early April to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 24 · 7.7

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 São João da Boa Vista, 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.

São João da Boa Vista 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, São João da Boa Vista sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 20 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in São João da Boa Vista 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 São João da Boa Vista peaks around January 21 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 10 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighVery highExtremeJan 21UV 15Jul 10UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr10Very high
May7Very high
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug8Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct12Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in São João da Boa Vista

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
Mar86.5
Apr75
May63
Jun5.52
Jul5.52
Aug6.54
Sep74
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec97

Air quality in São João da Boa Vista 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 São João da Boa Vista is worst in September — around 24 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.7× the cleanest month (November, 9 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1522 µg/m³Nov 239 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb10Good
Mar10Good
Apr11Good
May11Good
Jun11Good
Jul11Good
Aug15Moderate
Sep24Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov9Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

São João da Boa Vista 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. São João da Boa Vista banks about 4,146 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)
Jan418
Feb379
Mar402
Apr346
May278
Jun244
Jul251
Aug296
Sep346
Oct393
Nov383
Dec411

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.

São João da Boa Vista receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around Aug 22 to Mar 22. The brightest month is October, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.9 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the October peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseOct 246.0 kWhJun 23.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr4.8Bright
May4.1Bright
Jun3.9Moderate
Jul4.1Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep5.6Bright
Oct5.9Bright
Nov5.9Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is São João da Boa Vista?

São João da Boa Vista sits at 22.0°S, 46.8°W, 774 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Vargem Grande do Sul, 18 km away.

Topography around São João da Boa Vista

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of São João da Boa Vista.

Within 3 km, the terrain around São João da Boa Vista has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 119 m around an average of 766 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,001 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,260 m.

The land around São João da Boa Vista is covered by artificial surfaces (40%), grassland (27%) and trees (24%) within 3 km, trees (37%), grassland (33%) and cropland (26%) within 16 km, and trees (36%), grassland (32%) and cropland (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
119 m
16 km
1,001 m
80 km
1,260 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Vargem Grande do Sul 18 km · Aguaí 21 km · Espírito Santo do Pinhal 26 km · Andradas 26 km · Poços de Caldas 32 km · Casa Branca 37 km · Jacutinga 40 km · São José do Rio Pardo 43 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 São João da Boa Vista (-21.9692°, -46.7981°, elevation 774 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).