Climate and average weather in Tapauá

In Tapauá, the weather is oppressive, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around March.

Best: mid June to mid August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tapauá typically varies from 23°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 35°C. September is the hottest month of the year, while May is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Tapauá for warm-weather activities is from mid June to mid August.

Hottest
Sep
32°
Coldest
May
24°
Wettest
Mar
334 mm
Driest
Jul
65 mm
Rain / yr
2568 mm
285 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
48 m
5.6°S
Clearest
Jul
49% cloud

Tapauá 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 mid June to mid August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Tapauá stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is September, with an average high of 32°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is May, with an average low of 24°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3024
Feb3024
Mar3024
Apr3024
May3024
Jun3023
Jul3123
Aug3224
Sep3224
Oct3224
Nov3124
Dec3124

How hot and cold Tapauá 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, Tapauá feels like about 40°C (around September 22). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 84 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in September.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan37302424
Feb37302424
Mar37302424
Apr37302424
May37302424
Jun37302323
Jul37312323
Aug39322424
Sep40322424
Oct40322424
Nov39312424
Dec38312424

Average hourly temperature in Tapauá

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 September afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in May, near 24°C.

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

Tapauá 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
Jan30° / 24°31828.812.32.6
Feb30° / 24°29125.812.22.6
Mar30° / 24°33429.1122.6
Apr30° / 24°29628.111.92.6
May30° / 24°22527.211.72.9
Jun30° / 23°10518.911.73.7
Jul31° / 23°6513.411.74.3
Aug32° / 24°8615.211.83.6
Sep32° / 24°14419.9123.0
Oct32° / 24°18423.712.12.7
Nov31° / 24°2302612.32.6
Dec31° / 24°29128.612.32.6

Chance of rain

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

Tapauá gets about 2568 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 7.4 months, from around Oct 21 to Jun 1, peaking in February at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 30.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 334 mm over about 29 wet days; July is the driest, with 65 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 28 · 95%Jul 30 · 37%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9329
Feb9326
Mar9429
Apr9328
May8727
Jun6419
Jul4313
Aug4915
Sep6620
Oct7724
Nov8726
Dec9229

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tapauá collects about 2568 mm of rain across 285 wet days — roughly 214 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 334 mm, while July is the driest at just 65 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3182913342962251056586144184230291
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan31829
Feb29126
Mar33429
Apr29628
May22527
Jun10519
Jul6513
Aug8615
Sep14420
Oct18424
Nov23026
Dec29129

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tapauá, 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 May 31 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around October 9. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 66% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 10 and lasts for 7.7 months, ending around May 30. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 97% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 30 · 72%Feb 28 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan496
Feb397
Mar496
Apr595
May1486
Jun4357
Jul6634
Aug6238
Sep4159
Oct2080
Nov1090
Dec793

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. Close to the equator, Tapauá barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.36:136:31
Feb12.26:226:33
Mar12.06:216:24
Apr11.96:176:09
May11.76:176:01
Jun11.76:236:03
Jul11.76:276:09
Aug11.86:226:11
Sep12.06:086:06
Oct12.15:546:02
Nov12.35:506:06
Dec12.35:596:19

Sunny days

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

Tapauá averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.0 months, from around Jun 5 to Oct 5. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the July peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightJul 2914 daysJan 10 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul12Mixed
Aug12Mixed
Sep6Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec0Gloomy

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.

Tapauá is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 100% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressive
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan002575
Feb002575
Mar001882
Apr001387
May011881
Jun112969
Jul133957
Aug133265
Sep011980
Oct001189
Nov00991
Dec001882

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 Tapauá is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmAug 10 · 5 km/hDec 28 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Tapauá

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid August, Tapauá is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Tapauá for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to late August, with a peak score in the third week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 17 · 4.4

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
Jan2.6poor
Feb2.6poor
Mar2.6poor
Apr2.6poor
May2.9poor
Jun3.7fair
Jul4.3fair
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.0poor
Oct2.7poor
Nov2.6poor
Dec2.6poor

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 Tapauá for hot-weather activities is from mid June to late August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 28 · 6.5

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 Tapauá, 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.

Tapauá packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°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 September, Tapauá sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 20 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Tapauá 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 Tapauá peaks around March 12 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near September 15 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 highVery highExtremeMar 12UV 15Sep 15UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug10Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct12Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Tapauá

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 March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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
Feb8.56.5
Mar86.5
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun7.55
Jul75
Aug7.55
Sep6.54
Oct86
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Tapauá 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 Tapauá is worst in August — around 38 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.8× the cleanest month (June, 10 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModeratePoorModerateAug 2237 µg/m³Jun 1010 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan14Moderate
Feb14Moderate
Mar14Moderate
Apr13Moderate
May11Good
Jun10Good
Jul16Moderate
Aug38Poor
Sep34Moderate
Oct19Moderate
Nov17Moderate
Dec17Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tapauá 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. Tapauá banks about 6,329 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)
Jan528
Feb477
Mar531
Apr511
May522
Jun507
Jul531
Aug554
Sep543
Oct559
Nov529
Dec536

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.

Tapauá receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 5.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Jul 13 to Dec 13. The brightest month is September, averaging about 5.4 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is May, down near 3.9 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the September peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 295.5 kWhMay 213.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.4Bright
Feb4.4Bright
Mar4.3Bright
Apr4.1Bright
May3.9Moderate
Jun4.2Bright
Jul4.7Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov4.9Bright
Dec4.6Bright

Where is Tapauá?

Tapauá sits at 5.6°S, 63.2°W, 48 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Canutama, 167 km away.

LábreaAnoriBeruri

Topography around Tapauá

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tapauá has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 50 m around an average of 48 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 57 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 70 m.

The land around Tapauá is covered by trees (79%) within 3 km, trees (91%) within 16 km, and trees (97%) within 80 km.

3 km
50 m
16 km
57 m
80 km
70 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Canutama 167 km · Coari 172 km · Manicoré 209 km · Humaitá 211 km · Codajás 235 km · Lábrea 255 km · Anori 268 km · Beruri 278 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 Tapauá (-5.6283°, -63.1833°, elevation 48 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).