Ribeirão das Neves climate

Name: Ribeirão das Neves
Address: BR

Ribeirão das Neves is warmest in October, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 13 °C. December is the wettest month (231 mm) and July the driest (3.7 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ribeirão das Neves averages 1,029 mm of rain and 235 days above 25 °C.

Brazil · population 346,971 · 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 28 °C
Coldest month July 13 °C
Driest month July 4 mm
Wettest month December 231 mm
Least cloud August 30 % cloud
Hottest on record October 35 °C
Coldest on record July 5.8 °C

What to expectRibeirão das Neves through the year

Ribeirão das Neves has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 24 °C in July to 28 °C in October, a swing of 5.0 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 235 days a year reach 25 °C, 23 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. December averages 231 mm against 4 mm in July — 63 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.1 °C	190 mm	74 %
February	27.6 °C	105 mm	67 %
March	26.9 °C	125 mm	65 %
April	26.0 °C	46 mm	50 %
May	24.3 °C	27 mm	44 %
June	23.6 °C	8 mm	37 %
July	23.8 °C	4 mm	31 %
August	25.4 °C	9 mm	30 %
September	27.1 °C	41 mm	41 %
October	27.7 °C	73 mm	59 %
November	26.3 °C	171 mm	74 %
December	26.5 °C	231 mm	77 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.1 °C	19.2 °C	22.9 °C	33.8 °C	14.8 °C	26	3
February	27.6 °C	19.3 °C	23.2 °C	32.6 °C	14.6 °C	25	3
March	26.9 °C	18.8 °C	22.5 °C	31.6 °C	14.2 °C	26	1
April	26.0 °C	17.4 °C	21.4 °C	30.5 °C	10.0 °C	22	0
May	24.3 °C	14.7 °C	19.2 °C	30.1 °C	7.4 °C	12	0
June	23.6 °C	13.2 °C	18.1 °C	28.4 °C	6.1 °C	6	0
July	23.8 °C	13.0 °C	18.1 °C	29.5 °C	5.8 °C	8	0
August	25.4 °C	14.0 °C	19.5 °C	31.5 °C	7.7 °C	18	1
September	27.1 °C	16.2 °C	21.4 °C	34.9 °C	7.9 °C	23	5
October	27.7 °C	18.0 °C	22.5 °C	35.4 °C	11.2 °C	25	7
November	26.3 °C	18.4 °C	21.9 °C	35.1 °C	12.5 °C	21	3
December	26.5 °C	18.9 °C	22.3 °C	32.0 °C	14.5 °C	24	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	190 mm	17	13 h/day	74 %	76 %	12 km/h
February	105 mm	11	13 h/day	67 %	73 %	12 km/h
March	125 mm	14	12 h/day	65 %	77 %	12 km/h
April	46 mm	8	12 h/day	50 %	75 %	12 km/h
May	27 mm	4	11 h/day	44 %	73 %	12 km/h
June	8 mm	1	11 h/day	37 %	71 %	12 km/h
July	4 mm	1	11 h/day	31 %	66 %	13 km/h
August	9 mm	2	11 h/day	30 %	60 %	14 km/h
September	41 mm	5	12 h/day	41 %	60 %	15 km/h
October	73 mm	9	13 h/day	59 %	65 %	15 km/h
November	171 mm	18	13 h/day	74 %	76 %	14 km/h
December	231 mm	21	13 h/day	77 %	80 %	13 km/h

How Ribeirão das Neves 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
Ribeirão das Neves	28 °C	13 °C	1,029 mm	235
Contagem · Brazil	27 °C	12 °C	1,174 mm	196
Belo Horizonte · Brazil	27 °C	12 °C	1,176 mm	212
Santa Luzia · Brazil	28 °C	13 °C	991 mm	255
Betim · Brazil	28 °C	12 °C	1,269 mm	235
Sete Lagoas · Brazil	29 °C	13 °C	1,250 mm	265
Divinópolis · Brazil	28 °C	13 °C	1,357 mm	257

Where Ribeirão das Neves ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in South America in July	7th of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in South America in June	10th of 50	96/100
Places with the best weather in South America in May	10th of 50	94/100
Places with the best weather in South America in August	11th of 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in the world in July	17th of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in South America in September	33rd of 50	89/100

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QuestionsCommon questions about Ribeirão das Neves’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ribeirão das Neves?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. May, August, September 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 Ribeirão das Neves get?

In October, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 23 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 13 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Ribeirão das Neves?

December, averaging 231 mm over 21 days with rain. The driest month is July with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,029 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 Ribeirão das Neves 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: -19.767°, -44.087° (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.