Governador Valadares climate

Name: Governador Valadares
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Governador Valadares is warmest in February, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 18 °C. December is the wettest month (215 mm) and July the driest (9.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Governador Valadares averages 1,009 mm of rain and 333 days above 25 °C.

Brazil · population 266,561 · 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 32 °C
Coldest month July 18 °C
Driest month July 9 mm
Wettest month December 215 mm
Least cloud August 48 % cloud
Hottest on record October 40 °C
Coldest on record July 11 °C

What to expectGovernador Valadares through the year

Governador Valadares has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in July to 32 °C in February, a swing of 5.2 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 333 days a year reach 25 °C, 155 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. December averages 215 mm against 9 mm in July — 23 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	31.2 °C	162 mm	70 %
February	31.7 °C	91 mm	62 %
March	30.9 °C	119 mm	65 %
April	29.3 °C	68 mm	58 %
May	27.5 °C	28 mm	56 %
June	26.6 °C	12 mm	51 %
July	26.6 °C	9 mm	49 %
August	27.8 °C	11 mm	48 %
September	29.9 °C	21 mm	54 %
October	31.0 °C	80 mm	66 %
November	29.8 °C	192 mm	78 %
December	30.4 °C	215 mm	76 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	31.2 °C	22.8 °C	26.6 °C	39.1 °C	19.0 °C	31	22
February	31.7 °C	22.9 °C	27.0 °C	37.0 °C	18.3 °C	28	22
March	30.9 °C	22.7 °C	26.4 °C	36.8 °C	18.2 °C	30	20
April	29.3 °C	21.6 °C	25.2 °C	35.9 °C	16.0 °C	29	11
May	27.5 °C	19.5 °C	23.3 °C	33.7 °C	12.0 °C	27	4
June	26.6 °C	18.2 °C	22.1 °C	35.6 °C	12.7 °C	24	1
July	26.6 °C	17.6 °C	21.8 °C	33.8 °C	11.4 °C	24	2
August	27.8 °C	18.1 °C	22.6 °C	35.0 °C	11.6 °C	27	6
September	29.9 °C	19.7 °C	24.4 °C	39.6 °C	14.1 °C	28	15
October	31.0 °C	21.3 °C	25.7 °C	40.0 °C	15.6 °C	29	19
November	29.8 °C	21.8 °C	25.3 °C	39.9 °C	15.7 °C	27	15
December	30.4 °C	22.4 °C	26.0 °C	37.0 °C	18.5 °C	30	19

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	162 mm	13	13 h/day	70 %	71 %	11 km/h
February	91 mm	10	13 h/day	62 %	69 %	11 km/h
March	119 mm	12	12 h/day	65 %	72 %	9.9 km/h
April	68 mm	9	12 h/day	58 %	73 %	9.0 km/h
May	28 mm	5	11 h/day	56 %	71 %	8.7 km/h
June	12 mm	3	11 h/day	51 %	70 %	8.6 km/h
July	9 mm	2	11 h/day	49 %	67 %	9.6 km/h
August	11 mm	2	11 h/day	48 %	63 %	11 km/h
September	21 mm	4	12 h/day	54 %	60 %	13 km/h
October	80 mm	8	13 h/day	66 %	62 %	13 km/h
November	192 mm	15	13 h/day	78 %	71 %	12 km/h
December	215 mm	17	13 h/day	76 %	74 %	11 km/h

Where Governador Valadares ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in South America in February	22nd of 50	32 °C
The warmest places in South America in January	30th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in March	35th of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in South America in December	41st of 50	30 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Governador Valadares.

QuestionsCommon questions about Governador Valadares’s climate

When is the best time to visit Governador Valadares?

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 July the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Governador Valadares get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 155 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 Governador Valadares?

December, averaging 215 mm over 17 days with rain. The driest month is July with 9 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,009 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 Governador Valadares 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: -18.851°, -41.949° (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.