Patos de Minas climate

Name: Patos de Minas
Address: BR

Patos de Minas is warmest in October, with average highs of 29 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 14 °C. December is the wettest month (250 mm) and July the driest (3.8 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Patos de Minas averages 1,241 mm of rain and 278 days above 25 °C.

Brazil · population 159,235 · 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 October 29 °C
Coldest month July 14 °C
Driest month July 4 mm
Wettest month December 250 mm
Least cloud August 28 % cloud
Hottest on record October 37 °C
Coldest on record June 6.0 °C

What to expectPatos de Minas through the year

Patos de Minas has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 25 °C in July to 29 °C in October, a swing of 4.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 278 days a year reach 25 °C, 38 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. December averages 250 mm against 4 mm in July — 66 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.3 °C	229 mm	79 %
February	27.6 °C	156 mm	72 %
March	26.9 °C	169 mm	70 %
April	26.6 °C	66 mm	53 %
May	25.3 °C	24 mm	44 %
June	24.7 °C	9 mm	38 %
July	25.0 °C	4 mm	32 %
August	26.9 °C	7 mm	28 %
September	28.9 °C	35 mm	40 %
October	29.0 °C	93 mm	60 %
November	26.9 °C	200 mm	76 %
December	27.0 °C	250 mm	82 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.3 °C	19.5 °C	23.0 °C	33.7 °C	16.5 °C	26	3
February	27.6 °C	19.4 °C	23.2 °C	33.2 °C	15.9 °C	25	2
March	26.9 °C	19.0 °C	22.6 °C	31.5 °C	15.6 °C	26	1
April	26.6 °C	18.0 °C	22.0 °C	31.4 °C	12.0 °C	24	1
May	25.3 °C	15.7 °C	20.3 °C	30.3 °C	7.1 °C	18	0
June	24.7 °C	14.4 °C	19.4 °C	29.7 °C	6.0 °C	14	0
July	25.0 °C	14.2 °C	19.5 °C	30.3 °C	6.9 °C	17	0
August	26.9 °C	15.4 °C	21.1 °C	32.7 °C	9.3 °C	25	3
September	28.9 °C	17.7 °C	23.1 °C	36.1 °C	10.2 °C	27	11
October	29.0 °C	19.1 °C	23.8 °C	37.4 °C	13.4 °C	27	11
November	26.9 °C	19.0 °C	22.5 °C	34.8 °C	14.4 °C	24	3
December	27.0 °C	19.3 °C	22.7 °C	32.9 °C	14.9 °C	25	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	229 mm	21	13 h/day	79 %	79 %	12 km/h
February	156 mm	17	13 h/day	72 %	78 %	11 km/h
March	169 mm	20	12 h/day	70 %	80 %	11 km/h
April	66 mm	11	12 h/day	53 %	76 %	11 km/h
May	24 mm	4	11 h/day	44 %	71 %	11 km/h
June	9 mm	1	11 h/day	38 %	66 %	12 km/h
July	4 mm	1	11 h/day	32 %	60 %	13 km/h
August	7 mm	1	11 h/day	28 %	53 %	13 km/h
September	35 mm	5	12 h/day	40 %	54 %	14 km/h
October	93 mm	12	13 h/day	60 %	64 %	14 km/h
November	200 mm	21	13 h/day	76 %	78 %	13 km/h
December	250 mm	23	13 h/day	82 %	81 %	12 km/h

How Patos de Minas 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
Patos de Minas	29 °C	14 °C	1,241 mm	278
Uberlândia · Brazil	30 °C	14 °C	1,287 mm	299
Uberaba · Brazil	30 °C	16 °C	1,607 mm	315
Franca · Brazil	28 °C	12 °C	1,462 mm	232
Divinópolis · Brazil	28 °C	13 °C	1,357 mm	257

Where Patos de Minas ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in South America in June	12thof 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in South America in July	16thof 50	96/100
Places with the best weather in South America in May	25thof 50	93/100
Places with the best weather in the world in July	32ndof 50	96/100
Places with the best weather in the world in June	44thof 50	95/100
The driest places in South America in July	46thof 50	3.8 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Patos de Minas.

QuestionsCommon questions about Patos de Minas’s climate

When is the best time to visit Patos de Minas?

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

How hot does Patos de Minas get?

In October, the warmest month, daily highs average 29 °C. About 38 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 14 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Patos de Minas?

December, averaging 250 mm over 23 days with rain. The driest month is July with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,241 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 Patos de Minas 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
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.