Campos dos Goytacazes climate

Name: Campos dos Goytacazes
Address: BR

Campos dos Goytacazes is warmest in February, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 18 °C. December is the wettest month (199 mm) and June the driest (21 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Campos dos Goytacazes averages 1,087 mm of rain and 289 days above 25 °C.

Brazil · population 483,540 · 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 February 31 °C
Coldest month July 18 °C
Driest month June 21 mm
Wettest month December 199 mm
Least cloud July 42 % cloud
Hottest on record November 40 °C
Coldest on record July 10 °C

What to expectCampos dos Goytacazes through the year

Campos dos Goytacazes has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in July to 31 °C in February, a swing of 5.5 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 289 days a year reach 25 °C, 111 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C, in November.

Rain is strongly seasonal. December averages 199 mm against 21 mm in June — 9.7 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.5 °C	154 mm	66 %
February	31.2 °C	83 mm	57 %
March	30.1 °C	147 mm	62 %
April	28.5 °C	85 mm	53 %
May	26.5 °C	49 mm	50 %
June	25.9 °C	21 mm	45 %
July	25.6 °C	23 mm	42 %
August	26.3 °C	22 mm	43 %
September	27.2 °C	45 mm	52 %
October	28.2 °C	84 mm	65 %
November	28.1 °C	173 mm	74 %
December	29.5 °C	199 mm	71 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.5 °C	23.3 °C	26.2 °C	38.9 °C	18.4 °C	30	17
February	31.2 °C	23.5 °C	26.6 °C	39.3 °C	18.7 °C	28	19
March	30.1 °C	23.0 °C	25.9 °C	37.7 °C	18.6 °C	30	16
April	28.5 °C	21.5 °C	24.5 °C	37.5 °C	14.4 °C	27	8
May	26.5 °C	19.2 °C	22.4 °C	34.3 °C	13.4 °C	21	3
June	25.9 °C	18.1 °C	21.5 °C	33.9 °C	10.8 °C	19	2
July	25.6 °C	17.6 °C	21.1 °C	34.0 °C	10.1 °C	18	2
August	26.3 °C	18.1 °C	21.5 °C	35.7 °C	11.8 °C	20	4
September	27.2 °C	19.3 °C	22.6 °C	37.5 °C	12.4 °C	21	7
October	28.2 °C	20.6 °C	23.7 °C	39.5 °C	13.2 °C	24	10
November	28.1 °C	21.4 °C	24.1 °C	39.9 °C	15.2 °C	24	9
December	29.5 °C	22.6 °C	25.5 °C	39.2 °C	15.8 °C	29	14

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	154 mm	13	13 h/day	66 %	79 %	18 km/h
February	83 mm	10	13 h/day	57 %	77 %	18 km/h
March	147 mm	15	12 h/day	62 %	80 %	16 km/h
April	85 mm	12	12 h/day	53 %	80 %	15 km/h
May	49 mm	8	11 h/day	50 %	79 %	14 km/h
June	21 mm	5	11 h/day	45 %	79 %	14 km/h
July	23 mm	5	11 h/day	42 %	77 %	16 km/h
August	22 mm	5	11 h/day	43 %	75 %	18 km/h
September	45 mm	8	12 h/day	52 %	74 %	20 km/h
October	84 mm	10	13 h/day	65 %	75 %	20 km/h
November	173 mm	16	13 h/day	74 %	79 %	19 km/h
December	199 mm	17	13 h/day	71 %	80 %	18 km/h

How Campos dos Goytacazes 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
Campos dos Goytacazes	31 °C	18 °C	1,087 mm	289
Macaé · Brazil	30 °C	18 °C	1,170 mm	243
Cachoeiro de Itapemirim · Brazil	31 °C	16 °C	1,322 mm	286
Rio das Ostras · Brazil	30 °C	18 °C	1,326 mm	251
Nova Friburgo · Brazil	27 °C	13 °C	2,042 mm	157
Cabo Frio · Brazil	28 °C	19 °C	1,239 mm	203

Where Campos dos Goytacazes ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in South America in February	34th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in January	45th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in March	48th of 50	30 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Campos dos Goytacazes’s climate

When is the best time to visit Campos dos Goytacazes?

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, February is the warmest month and June the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Campos dos Goytacazes get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 111 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 18 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Campos dos Goytacazes?

December, averaging 199 mm over 17 days with rain. The driest month is June with 21 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,087 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 Campos dos Goytacazes 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: -21.752°, -41.330° (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.