Garanhuns climate

Name: Garanhuns
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Garanhuns is warmest in December, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 16 °C. June is the wettest month (77 mm) and November the driest (22 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Garanhuns averages 599 mm of rain and 200 days above 25 °C.

Brazil · population 151,803 · 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 28 °C
Coldest month August 16 °C
Driest month November 22 mm
Wettest month June 77 mm
Least cloud November 61 % cloud
Hottest on record November 33 °C
Coldest on record August 12 °C

What to expectGaranhuns through the year

Garanhuns has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 22 °C in August to 28 °C in December, a swing of 3.8 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 200 days a year reach 25 °C, 11 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C, in November.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 77 mm against 22 mm in November — 3.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.4 °C	48 mm	67 %
February	27.2 °C	50 mm	68 %
March	27.1 °C	61 mm	67 %
April	26.1 °C	67 mm	71 %
May	24.4 °C	69 mm	74 %
June	22.6 °C	77 mm	75 %
July	21.7 °C	70 mm	75 %
August	22.1 °C	52 mm	72 %
September	23.9 °C	35 mm	66 %
October	26.0 °C	24 mm	63 %
November	27.3 °C	22 mm	61 %
December	27.8 °C	25 mm	62 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.4 °C	18.1 °C	21.9 °C	32.3 °C	15.0 °C	28	3
February	27.2 °C	18.4 °C	21.9 °C	32.4 °C	15.2 °C	25	1
March	27.1 °C	18.6 °C	22.0 °C	32.0 °C	15.0 °C	28	1
April	26.1 °C	18.4 °C	21.4 °C	32.2 °C	13.0 °C	22	0
May	24.4 °C	17.9 °C	20.4 °C	31.2 °C	14.2 °C	10	0
June	22.6 °C	17.0 °C	19.1 °C	27.4 °C	11.9 °C	1	0
July	21.7 °C	16.1 °C	18.2 °C	26.4 °C	12.3 °C	0	0
August	22.1 °C	15.7 °C	18.2 °C	27.5 °C	11.8 °C	1	0
September	23.9 °C	16.1 °C	19.2 °C	30.5 °C	12.6 °C	8	0
October	26.0 °C	16.8 °C	20.5 °C	32.2 °C	13.1 °C	21	1
November	27.3 °C	17.3 °C	21.5 °C	32.7 °C	14.3 °C	27	2
December	27.8 °C	17.8 °C	22.0 °C	32.4 °C	14.7 °C	29	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	48 mm	11	13 h/day	67 %	74 %	17 km/h
February	50 mm	12	12 h/day	68 %	76 %	17 km/h
March	61 mm	14	12 h/day	67 %	78 %	16 km/h
April	67 mm	15	12 h/day	71 %	81 %	16 km/h
May	69 mm	17	12 h/day	74 %	84 %	16 km/h
June	77 mm	18	12 h/day	75 %	86 %	17 km/h
July	70 mm	19	12 h/day	75 %	86 %	18 km/h
August	52 mm	16	12 h/day	72 %	84 %	18 km/h
September	35 mm	11	12 h/day	66 %	80 %	19 km/h
October	24 mm	7	12 h/day	63 %	76 %	19 km/h
November	22 mm	5	13 h/day	61 %	73 %	18 km/h
December	25 mm	7	13 h/day	62 %	72 %	18 km/h

How Garanhuns 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
Garanhuns	28 °C	16 °C	599 mm	200
Caruaru · Brazil	30 °C	18 °C	469 mm	305
Arapiraca · Brazil	32 °C	19 °C	552 mm	335
Maceió · Brazil	29 °C	22 °C	1,076 mm	350

Where Garanhuns ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in South America in October	37th of 50	85/100
The driest places in South America in November	49th of 50	22 mm

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Garanhuns’s climate

When is the best time to visit Garanhuns?

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

How hot does Garanhuns get?

In December, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 11 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 16 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Garanhuns?

June, averaging 77 mm over 18 days with rain. The driest month is November with 22 mm. The year as a whole averages 599 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 Garanhuns 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: -8.882°, -36.502° (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.