Poços de Caldas climate

Name: Poços de Caldas
Address: BR

Poços de Caldas is warmest in October, with average highs of 25 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 11 °C. January is the wettest month (327 mm) and July the driest (26 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Poços de Caldas averages 1,769 mm of rain and 110 days above 25 °C.

Brazil · population 172,339 · 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 25 °C
Coldest month July 11 °C
Driest month July 26 mm
Wettest month January 327 mm
Least cloud August 32 % cloud
Hottest on record October 33 °C
Coldest on record July 0.7 °C

What to expectPoços de Caldas through the year

Poços de Caldas has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 21 °C in July to 25 °C in October, a swing of 5.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 110 days a year reach 25 °C, 2 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 327 mm against 26 mm in July — 13 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	24.8 °C	327 mm	81 %
February	25.0 °C	239 mm	74 %
March	24.3 °C	207 mm	68 %
April	23.4 °C	86 mm	52 %
May	21.2 °C	60 mm	48 %
June	20.6 °C	31 mm	40 %
July	20.8 °C	26 mm	35 %
August	22.9 °C	27 mm	32 %
September	24.8 °C	91 mm	46 %
October	25.2 °C	147 mm	65 %
November	24.3 °C	229 mm	73 %
December	24.6 °C	299 mm	78 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	24.8 °C	17.7 °C	20.8 °C	30.5 °C	12.3 °C	16	0
February	25.0 °C	17.5 °C	20.8 °C	29.3 °C	13.0 °C	15	0
March	24.3 °C	16.9 °C	20.2 °C	28.4 °C	10.2 °C	12	0
April	23.4 °C	15.2 °C	18.9 °C	27.6 °C	8.3 °C	5	0
May	21.2 °C	12.5 °C	16.4 °C	26.0 °C	4.3 °C	0	0
June	20.6 °C	11.3 °C	15.5 °C	25.4 °C	1.7 °C	0	0
July	20.8 °C	10.8 °C	15.4 °C	26.1 °C	0.7 °C	0	0
August	22.9 °C	11.8 °C	17.0 °C	29.5 °C	3.8 °C	6	0
September	24.8 °C	14.3 °C	19.2 °C	31.3 °C	5.9 °C	15	1
October	25.2 °C	15.9 °C	20.1 °C	33.4 °C	8.2 °C	16	1
November	24.3 °C	16.3 °C	19.9 °C	31.2 °C	7.9 °C	12	0
December	24.6 °C	17.3 °C	20.5 °C	29.0 °C	9.6 °C	14	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	327 mm	25	13 h/day	81 %	83 %	13 km/h
February	239 mm	21	13 h/day	74 %	81 %	12 km/h
March	207 mm	21	12 h/day	68 %	82 %	12 km/h
April	86 mm	11	12 h/day	52 %	78 %	12 km/h
May	60 mm	7	11 h/day	48 %	76 %	12 km/h
June	31 mm	4	11 h/day	40 %	75 %	12 km/h
July	26 mm	3	11 h/day	35 %	70 %	13 km/h
August	27 mm	4	11 h/day	32 %	63 %	13 km/h
September	91 mm	10	12 h/day	46 %	65 %	14 km/h
October	147 mm	16	13 h/day	65 %	72 %	14 km/h
November	229 mm	21	13 h/day	73 %	79 %	14 km/h
December	299 mm	25	13 h/day	78 %	82 %	13 km/h

Where Poços de Caldas ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in South America in August	2ndof 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in the world in August	5thof 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in South America in September	30thof 50	90/100
Places with the best weather in South America in July	31stof 50	94/100
Places with the best weather in South America in May	35thof 50	92/100
Places with the best weather in South America year-round	38thof 50	82/100

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Poços de Caldas.

QuestionsCommon questions about Poços de Caldas’s climate

When is the best time to visit Poços de Caldas?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. March, October, November 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 Poços de Caldas get?

In October, the warmest month, daily highs average 25 °C. About 2 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 11 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Poços de Caldas?

January, averaging 327 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is July with 26 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,769 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 Poços de Caldas 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.