Recife climate

Name: Recife
Address: BR

Recife is warmest in March, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 22 °C. June is the wettest month (140 mm) and November the driest (30 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Recife averages 938 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

Brazil · population 1,653,461 · 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 March 30 °C
Coldest month August 22 °C
Driest month November 30 mm
Wettest month June 140 mm
Least cloud September 47 % cloud
Hottest on record March 34 °C
Coldest on record August 20 °C
Warmest sea April 29 °C

What to expectRecife through the year

Recife 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, 363 days a year reach 25 °C, 74 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 140 mm against 30 mm in November — 4.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Recife is warmest in April 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	29.8 °C	59 mm	59 %
February	29.9 °C	65 mm	60 %
March	29.9 °C	81 mm	58 %
April	29.2 °C	111 mm	62 %
May	28.2 °C	127 mm	59 %
June	27.1 °C	140 mm	57 %
July	26.5 °C	128 mm	55 %
August	26.6 °C	76 mm	51 %
September	27.5 °C	49 mm	47 %
October	28.7 °C	36 mm	49 %
November	29.5 °C	30 mm	52 %
December	29.9 °C	36 mm	55 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.8 °C	24.6 °C	26.8 °C	33.0 °C	22.7 °C	31	13
February	29.9 °C	24.8 °C	27.0 °C	33.4 °C	22.9 °C	28	13
March	29.9 °C	24.7 °C	27.0 °C	33.5 °C	23.0 °C	31	14
April	29.2 °C	24.5 °C	26.6 °C	32.5 °C	22.3 °C	30	7
May	28.2 °C	23.9 °C	25.8 °C	32.3 °C	21.6 °C	31	1
June	27.1 °C	23.2 °C	24.9 °C	30.2 °C	21.2 °C	30	0
July	26.5 °C	22.5 °C	24.2 °C	28.5 °C	20.6 °C	30	0
August	26.6 °C	22.3 °C	24.2 °C	28.9 °C	19.9 °C	30	0
September	27.5 °C	22.8 °C	24.8 °C	30.9 °C	20.6 °C	30	1
October	28.7 °C	23.6 °C	25.8 °C	32.5 °C	21.5 °C	31	3
November	29.5 °C	24.1 °C	26.5 °C	33.1 °C	22.1 °C	30	9
December	29.9 °C	24.6 °C	26.8 °C	32.5 °C	22.6 °C	31	13

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	59 mm	17	13 h/day	59 %	75 %	17 km/h	27.9 °C
February	65 mm	17	12 h/day	60 %	76 %	17 km/h	28.3 °C
March	81 mm	19	12 h/day	58 %	77 %	16 km/h	28.6 °C
April	111 mm	21	12 h/day	62 %	80 %	16 km/h	28.7 °C
May	127 mm	23	12 h/day	59 %	83 %	17 km/h	28.1 °C
June	140 mm	23	12 h/day	57 %	82 %	18 km/h	27.2 °C
July	128 mm	24	12 h/day	55 %	82 %	20 km/h	26.3 °C
August	76 mm	20	12 h/day	51 %	79 %	20 km/h	26.0 °C
September	49 mm	16	12 h/day	47 %	76 %	20 km/h	26.3 °C
October	36 mm	13	12 h/day	49 %	73 %	19 km/h	26.6 °C
November	30 mm	11	12 h/day	52 %	72 %	18 km/h	27.1 °C
December	36 mm	14	13 h/day	55 %	73 %	18 km/h	27.5 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Recife’s climate

When is the best time to visit Recife?

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

How hot does Recife get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 74 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 22 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Recife?

June, averaging 140 mm over 23 days with rain. The driest month is November with 30 mm. The year as a whole averages 938 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 Recife 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: -8.054°, -34.881° (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.