Climate and average weather in Ubatuba

In Ubatuba, the weather is muggy, warm, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: early January to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ubatuba typically varies from 19°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 28°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Ubatuba for warm-weather activities are from early January to late September and mid November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
26°
Coldest
Aug
19°
Wettest
Jan
203 mm
Driest
Aug
93 mm
Rain / yr
1760 mm
159 wet days
Daylight
10.6–13.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
6 m
23.4°S
Clearest
Jul
44% cloud

Ubatuba is human settlement in Brazil.

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

Ubatuba 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 early January to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ubatuba stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 26°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 19°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 2°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2524
Feb2624
Mar2523
Apr2422
May2220
Jun2220
Jul2119
Aug2119
Sep2119
Oct2220
Nov2321
Dec2422

Average hourly temperature in Ubatuba

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 26°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 19°C.

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

Ubatuba 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
Jan25° / 24°20316.113.35.7
Feb26° / 24°1471312.86.0
Mar25° / 23°18915.312.26.0
Apr24° / 22°13412.311.56.7
May22° / 20°12511.910.96.6
Jun22° / 20°1039.910.66.8
Jul21° / 19°1171010.76.8
Aug21° / 19°9310.311.26.7
Sep21° / 19°15414.211.96.0
Oct22° / 20°15815.312.65.7
Nov23° / 21°17215.613.15.7
Dec24° / 22°16414.913.46.0

Chance of rain

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

Ubatuba gets about 1760 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 6.9 months, from around Sep 13 to Apr 9, peaking in November at about 54% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 19.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 203 mm over about 16 wet days; August is the driest, with 93 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 9 · 54%Jun 19 · 31%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5116
Feb4613
Mar5015
Apr4112
May3912
Jun3310
Jul3210
Aug3410
Sep4614
Oct5115
Nov5216
Dec4815

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ubatuba collects about 1760 mm of rain across 159 wet days — roughly 147 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 203 mm, while August is the driest at just 93 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec20314718913412510311793154158172164
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan20316
Feb14713
Mar18915
Apr13412
May12512
Jun10310
Jul11710
Aug9310
Sep15414
Oct15815
Nov17216
Dec16415

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ubatuba, 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 25 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around September 15. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 16 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around March 24. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 64% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 29 · 66%Jan 4 · 35%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3664
Feb4357
Mar4951
Apr6337
May6139
Jun6337
Jul6337
Aug6337
Sep5149
Oct3862
Nov3961
Dec3664

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 24 min of light; the shortest, around June 3, only 10 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.36:317:48
Feb12.86:517:39
Mar12.27:057:15
Apr11.57:176:44
May10.97:306:23
Jun10.67:446:18
Jul10.77:456:26
Aug11.27:296:40
Sep11.96:596:51
Oct12.66:297:02
Nov13.16:117:20
Dec13.46:137:40

Sunny days

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

Ubatuba averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Mar 30 to Sep 17. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 15 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 7 sunny days — about 55% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 2316 daysJan 26 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb8Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May14Mixed
Jun14Mixed
Jul15Mixed
Aug15Bright
Sep11Mixed
Oct7Gloomy
Nov7Gloomy
Dec6Gloomy

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 Ubatuba, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around October 18 to May 4. 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 May 5 to October 17, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 22% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 20 · 25%Jan 1 · 0%miserablemuggyoppressivehumidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan002186218
Feb002156320
Mar00424639
Apr031439422
May211314790
Jun411434110
Jul715552200
Aug714532600
Sep312424310
Oct19245790
Nov151850260
Dec01732564

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 Ubatuba is typically light breeze, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around May 18 to Dec 6. The windiest month is September, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Dec 7 to May 17, with February the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeSep 20 · 14 km/hFeb 19 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr11calm
May12calm
Jun12light breeze
Jul13light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Ubatuba

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Ubatuba 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 Ubatuba for general outdoor tourist activities is from late September to late September, with a peak score in the third week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 17 · 6.9

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
Jan5.8good
Feb6.0good
Mar6.0good
Apr6.7good
May6.6good
Jun6.8good
Jul6.8good
Aug6.7good
Sep6.0good
Oct5.7good
Nov5.8good
Dec6.0good

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 Ubatuba for hot-weather activities is from late November to mid May, with a peak score in the third week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 17 · 5.8

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 Ubatuba, 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.

Ubatuba packs about the same all year — highs hold near 26°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, Ubatuba sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 24°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Ubatuba

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 21 km away) is warmest in February at about 27°C and coldest in August near 21°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

20°22°24°26°28°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan26Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar27Warm
Apr26Warm
May24Refreshing
Jun23Refreshing
Jul22Refreshing
Aug21Refreshing
Sep22Refreshing
Oct22Refreshing
Nov23Refreshing
Dec25Warm

UV index (midday) in Ubatuba 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 Ubatuba peaks around January 24 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 11 at about 5 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighVery highExtremeJan 24UV 14Jul 11UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar11Extreme
Apr9Very high
May7High
Jun6High
Jul5High
Aug8Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct11Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Ubatuba

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
Mar7.55.5
Apr74.5
May62.5
Jun50
Jul50
Aug63
Sep6.54
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec97

Air quality in Ubatuba 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 Ubatuba is worst in September — around 18 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.0× the cleanest month (March, 9 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1517 µg/m³Mar 149 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb9Good
Mar9Good
Apr10Good
May12Good
Jun13Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct12Moderate
Nov10Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ubatuba 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. Ubatuba banks about 4,381 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)
Jan451
Feb415
Mar440
Apr392
May352
Jun317
Jul306
Aug301
Sep305
Oct338
Nov352
Dec412

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.

Ubatuba receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.3 and 5.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Sep 28 to Apr 1. The brightest month is December, averaging about 5.7 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.3 kWh/m² — roughly 42% less than the December peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 215.8 kWhJun 243.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar5.0Bright
Apr4.4Bright
May3.6Moderate
Jun3.3Moderate
Jul3.4Moderate
Aug4.2Bright
Sep4.5Bright
Oct5.1Bright
Nov5.4Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Ubatuba?

Ubatuba sits at 23.4°S, 45.1°W, 6 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Caraguatatuba, 41 km away.

Topography around Ubatuba

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ubatuba has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 564 m around an average of 52 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,204 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,891 m.

The land around Ubatuba is covered by trees (41%), water (30%) and artificial surfaces (25%) within 3 km, trees (58%) and water (40%) within 16 km, and water (40%), trees (37%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
564 m
16 km
1,204 m
80 km
1,891 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Caraguatatuba 41 km · Cunha 42 km · Paraty 44 km · Ilhabela 48 km · São Sebastião 50 km · Paraibuna 61 km · Taubaté 67 km · Aparecida 67 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 Ubatuba (-23.4339°, -45.0711°, elevation 6 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).