Natal climate

Name: Natal
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Natal is warmest in December, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 23 °C. April is the wettest month (187 mm) and October the driest (25 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Natal averages 1,140 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Brazil · population 896,708 · 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 30 °C
Coldest month August 23 °C
Driest month October 25 mm
Wettest month April 187 mm
Least cloud September 36 % cloud
Hottest on record March 33 °C
Coldest on record August 20 °C
Warmest sea March 29 °C

What to expectNatal through the year

Natal changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 27 and 30 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 36 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. April averages 187 mm against 25 mm in October — 7.3 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Natal is warmest in March at 29 °C and coldest in August at 26 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.4 °C	78 mm	57 %
February	29.4 °C	104 mm	59 %
March	29.2 °C	153 mm	60 %
April	28.7 °C	187 mm	64 %
May	28.4 °C	152 mm	53 %
June	27.4 °C	154 mm	49 %
July	26.8 °C	138 mm	45 %
August	27.3 °C	52 mm	38 %
September	28.1 °C	32 mm	36 %
October	28.9 °C	25 mm	40 %
November	29.3 °C	26 mm	47 %
December	29.5 °C	41 mm	51 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.4 °C	24.7 °C	26.7 °C	31.5 °C	22.6 °C	31	7
February	29.4 °C	24.7 °C	26.8 °C	32.1 °C	22.4 °C	28	9
March	29.2 °C	24.7 °C	26.7 °C	32.5 °C	22.7 °C	31	6
April	28.7 °C	24.4 °C	26.3 °C	31.8 °C	22.1 °C	30	3
May	28.4 °C	24.1 °C	26.0 °C	32.3 °C	21.5 °C	31	1
June	27.4 °C	23.3 °C	25.1 °C	29.9 °C	20.8 °C	30	0
July	26.8 °C	22.7 °C	24.5 °C	29.7 °C	20.4 °C	30	0
August	27.3 °C	22.6 °C	24.7 °C	29.6 °C	20.3 °C	31	0
September	28.1 °C	23.2 °C	25.3 °C	30.2 °C	20.9 °C	30	0
October	28.9 °C	24.0 °C	26.0 °C	30.5 °C	22.2 °C	31	1
November	29.3 °C	24.4 °C	26.5 °C	31.5 °C	22.6 °C	30	3
December	29.5 °C	24.7 °C	26.7 °C	31.2 °C	23.0 °C	31	6

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	78 mm	19	12 h/day	57 %	76 %	23 km/h	28.0 °C
February	104 mm	19	12 h/day	59 %	78 %	23 km/h	28.4 °C
March	153 mm	23	12 h/day	60 %	80 %	22 km/h	28.7 °C
April	187 mm	24	12 h/day	64 %	82 %	22 km/h	28.7 °C
May	152 mm	21	12 h/day	53 %	82 %	23 km/h	28.2 °C
June	154 mm	21	12 h/day	49 %	82 %	25 km/h	27.4 °C
July	138 mm	20	12 h/day	45 %	81 %	27 km/h	26.6 °C
August	52 mm	14	12 h/day	38 %	77 %	29 km/h	26.2 °C
September	32 mm	11	12 h/day	36 %	74 %	29 km/h	26.3 °C
October	25 mm	10	12 h/day	40 %	73 %	28 km/h	26.8 °C
November	26 mm	10	12 h/day	47 %	73 %	26 km/h	27.3 °C
December	41 mm	14	12 h/day	51 %	74 %	25 km/h	27.7 °C

How Natal 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
Natal	30 °C	23 °C	1,140 mm	364
Parnamirim · Brazil	30 °C	22 °C	796 mm	363
João Pessoa · Brazil	29 °C	22 °C	947 mm	362
Campina Grande · Brazil	30 °C	19 °C	466 mm	338

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Natal’s climate

When is the best time to visit Natal?

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

How hot does Natal get?

In December, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 36 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 23 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Natal?

April, averaging 187 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is October with 25 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,140 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 Natal 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: -5.795°, -35.209° (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.