Climate and average weather in Sinop

In Sinop, the weather is sweltering, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: late April to early August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Sinop typically varies from 20°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 37°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Sinop for warm-weather activities is from late April to early August.

Hottest
Aug
34°
Coldest
Jan
22°
Wettest
Jan
305 mm
Driest
Jul
1 mm
Rain / yr
1741 mm
193 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
378 m
11.9°S
Clearest
Jul
25% cloud

Sinop is human settlement in Brazil.

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

Sinop 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 early August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Sinop stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 34°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 22°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in August.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2922
Feb3022
Mar3022
Apr3122
May3121
Jun3220
Jul3220
Aug3421
Sep3422
Oct3222
Nov3022
Dec3022

How hot and cold Sinop really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Sinop feels like about 36°C (around October 7). About 351 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in October.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33292222
Feb33302222
Mar34302222
Apr34312222
May34312121
Jun32322020
Jul32322020
Aug34342121
Sep36342222
Oct36322222
Nov34302222
Dec33302222

Average hourly temperature in Sinop

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 August afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 22°C.

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

Sinop 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
Jan29° / 22°30528.712.62.9
Feb30° / 22°27926.412.42.8
Mar30° / 22°25627.112.12.9
Apr31° / 22°13019.611.73.6
May31° / 21°316.511.54.7
Jun32° / 20°50.911.35.2
Jul32° / 20°10.411.45.1
Aug34° / 21°71.311.63.9
Sep34° / 22°538.711.93.2
Oct32° / 22°14620.212.33.0
Nov30° / 22°23225.212.52.9
Dec30° / 22°29627.612.73.0

Chance of rain

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

Sinop gets about 1741 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 6.6 months, from around Oct 4 to Apr 23, peaking in February at about 94% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 21.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 305 mm over about 29 wet days; July is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 7 · 94%Jul 21 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9229
Feb9426
Mar8827
Apr6420
May227
Jun41
Jul10
Aug51
Sep299
Oct6420
Nov8425
Dec9028

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Sinop collects about 1741 mm of rain across 193 wet days — roughly 145 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 305 mm, while July is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 51% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3052792561303151753146232296
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan30529
Feb27926
Mar25627
Apr13020
May317
Jun51
Jul10
Aug71
Sep539
Oct14620
Nov23225
Dec29628

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Sinop, 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 30 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 9. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 10 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around April 29. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 89% 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 2 · 90%Dec 7 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1387
Feb1387
Mar1585
Apr3169
May5545
Jun7921
Jul8812
Aug8515
Sep6733
Oct3565
Nov1585
Dec1189

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 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around June 3, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.66:337:10
Feb12.46:457:08
Mar12.16:496:54
Apr11.76:506:34
May11.56:556:22
Jun11.37:036:21
Jul11.47:076:29
Aug11.66:586:34
Sep11.96:386:34
Oct12.36:196:35
Nov12.56:116:44
Dec12.76:176:59

Sunny days

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

Sinop averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around May 7 to Sep 29. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 1 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2924 daysFeb 191 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr5Gloomy
May11Mixed
Jun18Bright
Jul23Brilliant
Aug21Bright
Sep13Mixed
Oct5Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
Dec1Gloomy

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 Sinop, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.7 months, from around September 17 to June 9. 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 June 10 to September 16, and August is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 59% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 1 · 71%Jan 1 · 0%humidoppressivemuggycomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan0000981
Feb0001972
Mar0000982
Apr0018892
May021238470
Jun121452660
Jul114934700
Aug2138251330
Sep5122228340
Oct00216820
Nov0002981
Dec0001990

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Sinop is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around May 4 to Sep 23. The windiest month is July, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 24 to May 3, with March the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 24 · 9 km/hMar 20 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Sinop

In seasonPeak

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

Sinop's monsoon runs October–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 Sinop

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 26 · 5.3

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
Jan2.9poor
Feb2.8poor
Mar2.9poor
Apr3.6fair
May4.7fair
Jun5.2fair
Jul5.0fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.0poor
Nov2.9poor
Dec2.9poor

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 Sinop for hot-weather activities is from early May to early September, with a peak score in the second week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 13 · 8.4

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 Sinop, 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.

Sinop packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Sinop sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Sinop 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 Sinop peaks around February 12 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near September 14 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeFeb 12UV 15Sep 14UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May10Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct11Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Sinop

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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb8.57
Mar86.5
Apr86
May74.5
Jun6.54
Jul74.5
Aug75
Sep6.53.5
Oct85.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec8.56.5

Air quality in Sinop 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 Sinop is worst in September — around 60 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.8× the cleanest month (April, 10 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodModeratePoorModerateSep 1656 µg/m³Apr 1511 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb12Good
Mar12Moderate
Apr10Good
May13Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug25Moderate
Sep60Unhealthy
Oct29Moderate
Nov17Moderate
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Sinop 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. Sinop banks about 5,942 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around September.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan483
Feb438
Mar490
Apr481
May500
Jun479
Jul495
Aug537
Sep538
Oct530
Nov485
Dec486

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.

Sinop receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.8 and 5.9 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseOct 45.9 kWhMar 244.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.8Bright
Feb4.8Bright
Mar4.8Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May4.8Bright
Jun4.8Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.3Bright
Dec4.9Bright

Where is Sinop?

Sinop sits at 11.9°S, 55.5°W, 378 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Sorriso, 79 km away.

Topography around Sinop

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Sinop has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 50 m around an average of 375 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 85 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 203 m.

The land around Sinop is covered by artificial surfaces (59%) within 3 km, cropland (53%) and trees (30%) within 16 km, and trees (47%) and cropland (47%) within 80 km.

3 km
50 m
16 km
85 m
80 km
203 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Sorriso 79 km · Colíder 116 km · Lucas do Rio Verde 141 km · Tapurah 147 km · Peixoto de Azevedo 191 km · Matupá 198 km · Guarantã do Norte 222 km · Nova Mutum 227 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 Sinop (-11.8642°, -55.5025°, elevation 378 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).