Arapiraca climate

Name: Arapiraca
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Arapiraca is warmest in December, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 19 °C. May is the wettest month (78 mm) and December the driest (18 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Arapiraca averages 552 mm of rain and 335 days above 25 °C.

Brazil · population 243,906 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month December 32 °C
Coldest month August 19 °C
Driest month December 18 mm
Wettest month May 78 mm
Least cloud October 53 % cloud
Hottest on record March 39 °C
Coldest on record August 15 °C

What to expectArapiraca through the year

Arapiraca has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in August to 32 °C in December, a swing of 4.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 335 days a year reach 25 °C, 156 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 78 mm against 18 mm in December — 4.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	31.8 °C	36 mm	59 %
February	31.6 °C	40 mm	60 %
March	31.4 °C	51 mm	58 %
April	30.2 °C	63 mm	60 %
May	28.1 °C	78 mm	63 %
June	26.3 °C	71 mm	61 %
July	25.4 °C	68 mm	62 %
August	25.7 °C	45 mm	59 %
September	27.5 °C	31 mm	53 %
October	29.8 °C	23 mm	53 %
November	31.3 °C	28 mm	54 %
December	32.1 °C	18 mm	55 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	31.8 °C	22.5 °C	26.3 °C	37.5 °C	19.0 °C	31	26
February	31.6 °C	22.7 °C	26.3 °C	36.6 °C	19.8 °C	28	22
March	31.4 °C	22.8 °C	26.3 °C	38.5 °C	19.5 °C	31	23
April	30.2 °C	22.3 °C	25.5 °C	36.4 °C	18.4 °C	30	15
May	28.1 °C	21.5 °C	24.2 °C	34.7 °C	16.9 °C	30	4
June	26.3 °C	20.4 °C	22.8 °C	31.5 °C	16.6 °C	26	0
July	25.4 °C	19.5 °C	21.9 °C	29.8 °C	16.3 °C	19	0
August	25.7 °C	19.1 °C	21.9 °C	31.1 °C	15.3 °C	21	0
September	27.5 °C	19.9 °C	23.1 °C	33.4 °C	15.9 °C	28	3
October	29.8 °C	21.0 °C	24.6 °C	36.6 °C	17.4 °C	31	13
November	31.3 °C	21.8 °C	25.7 °C	38.0 °C	17.7 °C	30	22
December	32.1 °C	22.3 °C	26.3 °C	37.7 °C	19.4 °C	31	27

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	36 mm	9	13 h/day	59 %	70 %	18 km/h
February	40 mm	9	12 h/day	60 %	71 %	18 km/h
March	51 mm	11	12 h/day	58 %	73 %	17 km/h
April	63 mm	14	12 h/day	60 %	76 %	16 km/h
May	78 mm	17	12 h/day	63 %	81 %	15 km/h
June	71 mm	19	12 h/day	61 %	83 %	16 km/h
July	68 mm	19	12 h/day	62 %	83 %	17 km/h
August	45 mm	16	12 h/day	59 %	81 %	17 km/h
September	31 mm	11	12 h/day	53 %	77 %	18 km/h
October	23 mm	6	12 h/day	53 %	72 %	19 km/h
November	28 mm	4	13 h/day	54 %	69 %	19 km/h
December	18 mm	5	13 h/day	55 %	68 %	19 km/h

How Arapiraca compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Arapiraca	32 °C	19 °C	552 mm	335
Garanhuns · Brazil	28 °C	16 °C	599 mm	200
Maceió · Brazil	29 °C	22 °C	1,076 mm	350
Nossa Senhora do Socorro · Brazil	29 °C	22 °C	846 mm	327
Aracaju · Brazil	29 °C	22 °C	944 mm	337

Where Arapiraca ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in South America in December	10th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in South America in January	19th of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in South America in November	22nd of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in February	23rd of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in South America in March	30th of 50	31 °C
The driest places in South America in December	44th of 50	18 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Arapiraca.

QuestionsCommon questions about Arapiraca’s climate

When is the best time to visit Arapiraca?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, August sit closest to 20 °C on average, December is the warmest month and December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Arapiraca get?

In December, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 156 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 19 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Arapiraca?

May, averaging 78 mm over 17 days with rain. The driest month is December with 18 mm. The year as a whole averages 552 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Arapiraca rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: -9.752°, -36.661° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.