Ribeirão Preto climate

Name: Ribeirão Preto
Address: BR

Ribeirão Preto is warmest in October, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 14 °C. January is the wettest month (248 mm) and July the driest (18 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ribeirão Preto averages 1,327 mm of rain and 317 days above 25 °C.

Brazil · population 698,642 · 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 30 °C
Coldest month July 14 °C
Driest month July 18 mm
Wettest month January 248 mm
Least cloud August 29 % cloud
Hottest on record October 40 °C
Coldest on record June 2.2 °C

What to expectRibeirão Preto through the year

Ribeirão Preto has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in July to 30 °C in October, a swing of 5.2 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 317 days a year reach 25 °C, 100 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 248 mm against 18 mm in July — 14 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.8 °C	248 mm	77 %
February	29.1 °C	175 mm	70 %
March	28.6 °C	159 mm	62 %
April	28.1 °C	65 mm	46 %
May	26.0 °C	46 mm	44 %
June	25.6 °C	27 mm	37 %
July	26.2 °C	18 mm	32 %
August	28.5 °C	18 mm	29 %
September	30.4 °C	69 mm	41 %
October	30.5 °C	111 mm	60 %
November	29.1 °C	166 mm	66 %
December	28.9 °C	225 mm	74 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.8 °C	20.9 °C	24.5 °C	36.1 °C	16.4 °C	29	10
February	29.1 °C	20.8 °C	24.6 °C	35.6 °C	15.3 °C	27	10
March	28.6 °C	20.2 °C	24.1 °C	33.1 °C	16.0 °C	29	8
April	28.1 °C	18.7 °C	23.1 °C	33.5 °C	9.6 °C	28	6
May	26.0 °C	15.9 °C	20.6 °C	31.3 °C	7.5 °C	20	1
June	25.6 °C	14.5 °C	19.7 °C	30.7 °C	2.2 °C	20	0
July	26.2 °C	14.4 °C	19.9 °C	31.3 °C	3.9 °C	23	1
August	28.5 °C	16.0 °C	21.9 °C	35.1 °C	6.4 °C	28	10
September	30.4 °C	18.6 °C	24.1 °C	38.2 °C	7.7 °C	27	17
October	30.5 °C	20.1 °C	24.9 °C	39.7 °C	11.3 °C	29	16
November	29.1 °C	20.1 °C	24.3 °C	38.5 °C	13.4 °C	28	11
December	28.9 °C	20.8 °C	24.4 °C	34.7 °C	15.3 °C	29	9

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	248 mm	23	13 h/day	77 %	79 %	12 km/h
February	175 mm	19	13 h/day	70 %	78 %	11 km/h
March	159 mm	19	12 h/day	62 %	78 %	12 km/h
April	65 mm	9	12 h/day	46 %	73 %	12 km/h
May	46 mm	6	11 h/day	44 %	70 %	12 km/h
June	27 mm	3	11 h/day	37 %	68 %	12 km/h
July	18 mm	2	11 h/day	32 %	62 %	13 km/h
August	18 mm	3	11 h/day	29 %	53 %	14 km/h
September	69 mm	7	12 h/day	41 %	55 %	15 km/h
October	111 mm	13	13 h/day	60 %	64 %	14 km/h
November	166 mm	17	13 h/day	66 %	72 %	14 km/h
December	225 mm	22	13 h/day	74 %	78 %	13 km/h

How Ribeirão Preto 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 Preto	30 °C	14 °C	1,327 mm	317
Araraquara · Brazil	29 °C	14 °C	1,391 mm	277
Franca · Brazil	28 °C	12 °C	1,462 mm	232
São Carlos · Brazil	28 °C	13 °C	1,350 mm	231

Where Ribeirão Preto ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in South America in June	50th of 50	93/100

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Ribeirão Preto.

QuestionsCommon questions about Ribeirão Preto’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ribeirão Preto?

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 Ribeirão Preto get?

In October, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 100 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °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 Ribeirão Preto?

January, averaging 248 mm over 23 days with rain. The driest month is July with 18 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,327 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 Preto 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: -21.177°, -47.810° (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.