Climate and average weather in Visconde do Rio Branco

In Visconde do Rio Branco, 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 December.

Best: late April to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Visconde do Rio Branco typically varies from 13°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 32°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 Visconde do Rio Branco for warm-weather activities is from late April to late September.

Hottest
Feb
29°
Coldest
Jul
13°
Wettest
Dec
261 mm
Driest
Jul
15 mm
Rain / yr
1410 mm
142 wet days
Daylight
10.7–13.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
343 m
21.0°S
Clearest
Jul
48% cloud

Visconde do Rio Branco is human settlement in Brazil.

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

Visconde do Rio Branco 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 Visconde do Rio Branco, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Visconde do Rio Branco stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 29°C and low of 20°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 13°C and high of 24°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)
Jan2920
Feb2920
Mar2819
Apr2718
May2515
Jun2414
Jul2413
Aug2514
Sep2616
Oct2718
Nov2719
Dec2820

Average hourly temperature in Visconde do Rio Branco

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 13°C.

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

Visconde do Rio Branco 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° / 20°2361913.14.3
Feb29° / 20°14814.512.74.5
Mar28° / 19°1731812.14.8
Apr27° / 18°8211.611.56.3
May25° / 15°416.8117.4
Jun24° / 14°153.410.78.2
Jul24° / 13°153.710.98.2
Aug25° / 14°213.911.38.0
Sep26° / 16°668.311.96.9
Oct27° / 18°11412.812.55.9
Nov27° / 19°23919.1134.9
Dec28° / 20°26121.113.34.5

Chance of rain

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

Visconde do Rio Branco gets about 1410 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 5.9 months, from around Oct 17 to Apr 14, peaking in December at about 68% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 26.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 261 mm over about 21 wet days; July is the driest, with 15 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 8 · 68%Jun 26 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6119
Feb5315
Mar5718
Apr3812
May237
Jun123
Jul114
Aug134
Sep288
Oct4213
Nov6419
Dec6721

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Visconde do Rio Branco collects about 1410 mm of rain across 142 wet days — roughly 118 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 261 mm, while July is the driest at just 15 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 52% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec236148173824115152166114239261
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan23619
Feb14815
Mar17318
Apr8212
May417
Jun153
Jul154
Aug214
Sep668
Oct11413
Nov23919
Dec26121

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Visconde do Rio Branco, 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 5.7 months, ending around September 19. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 60% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 20 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around March 29. 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 28 · 62%Dec 1 · 16%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2773
Feb3763
Mar3862
Apr5050
May5050
Jun5941
Jul5941
Aug6040
Sep4753
Oct3268
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 18 min of light; the shortest, around June 12, 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)
Jan13.16:267:35
Feb12.76:447:27
Mar12.16:577:06
Apr11.57:066:37
May11.07:186:18
Jun10.77:306:14
Jul10.97:326:22
Aug11.37:176:34
Sep11.96:496:42
Oct12.56:226:51
Nov13.06:067:07
Dec13.36:097:26

Sunny days

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

Visconde do Rio Branco 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 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Apr 21 to Sep 25. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 2 sunny days — about 80% fewer than the September peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightSep 114 daysNov 302 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep10Mixed
Oct5Gloomy
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 Visconde do Rio Branco, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around October 9 to May 5. 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 6 to October 8, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 88% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 21 · 90%Jan 1 · 0%oppressivehumidcomfortablemuggydryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan00127513
Feb00127711
Mar01147510
Apr01133541
May83548100
Jun16562710
Jul29591200
Aug31531500
Sep16433570
Oct42246280
Nov1834543
Dec01157310

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 Visconde do Rio Branco 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/hApr 1 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Visconde do Rio Branco

In seasonPeak

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

Visconde do Rio Branco'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 Visconde do Rio Branco

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid September, Visconde do Rio Branco 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 Visconde do Rio Branco for general outdoor tourist activities is from late April to late September, with a peak score in the last week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 24 · 8.3

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
Jan4.3fair
Feb4.5fair
Mar4.9fair
Apr6.3good
May7.4good
Jun8.2ideal
Jul8.2ideal
Aug8.0ideal
Sep6.9good
Oct5.9good
Nov4.9fair
Dec4.5fair

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 Visconde do Rio Branco for hot-weather activities run from early February to late February and again from late March to late October, with a peak score in the last week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 28 · 7.2

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 Visconde do Rio Branco, 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.

Visconde do Rio Branco packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°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, Visconde do Rio Branco sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Visconde do Rio Branco 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 Visconde do Rio Branco peaks around January 24 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 22 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 24UV 15Jun 22UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr10Very high
May7Very high
Jun6High
Jul7High
Aug8Very high
Sep9Very high
Oct12Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Visconde do Rio Branco

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
Apr75
May63
Jun5.52
Jul62
Aug6.54
Sep74.5
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec97

Air quality in Visconde do Rio Branco 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 Visconde do Rio Branco is worst in September — around 15 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (March, 8 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1715 µg/m³Mar 168 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb9Good
Mar8Good
Apr9Good
May10Good
Jun10Good
Jul10Good
Aug11Good
Sep15Moderate
Oct12Good
Nov9Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Visconde do Rio Branco 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. Visconde do Rio Branco banks about 4,286 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)
Jan444
Feb407
Mar426
Apr366
May308
Jun270
Jul269
Aug292
Sep327
Oct376
Nov377
Dec424

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.

Visconde do Rio Branco receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.5 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Sep 1 to Mar 29. The brightest month is February, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is May, down near 3.7 kWh/m² — roughly 37% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 46.0 kWhMay 273.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar5.0Bright
Apr4.3Bright
May3.7Moderate
Jun3.5Moderate
Jul3.6Moderate
Aug4.3Bright
Sep4.8Bright
Oct5.1Bright
Nov4.9Bright
Dec5.5Bright

Where is Visconde do Rio Branco?

Visconde do Rio Branco sits at 21.0°S, 42.8°W, 343 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Ubá, 16 km away.

Topography around Visconde do Rio Branco

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Visconde do Rio Branco.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Visconde do Rio Branco has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 164 m around an average of 375 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 644 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,843 m.

The land around Visconde do Rio Branco is covered by grassland (66%) within 3 km, grassland (71%) and trees (26%) within 16 km, and grassland (61%) and trees (38%) within 80 km.

3 km
164 m
16 km
644 m
80 km
1,843 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Ubá 16 km · Tocantins 26 km · Ervália 27 km · Viçosa 29 km · Cataguases 45 km · Rio Pomba 46 km · Muriaé 51 km · Piranga 60 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 Visconde do Rio Branco (-21.0103°, -42.8406°, elevation 343 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).