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Maceió climate by month
What the weather is like
Maceió has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is March, when afternoons average 28° and nights 25°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 25° and lows of 23°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,741 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (284 mm, 28 wet days) and November the driest (42 mm, 5 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 19% in October to 29% in February.
The sea reaches about 29° in April. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Brasília, the capital, Maceió is 2.2° warmer on a March afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · March
- Coldest nights
- 23° · August
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- November
- Clearest skies
- October · 19% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 29° · April
- Longest day
- 12 h 41 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 34 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 28° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 25° | 26° | 26° | 27° | 27° |
| Average low | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 25° |
| Precipitation | 67 mm | 84 mm | 144 mm | 230 mm | 255 mm | 284 mm | 260 mm | 168 mm | 105 mm | 53 mm | 42 mm | 49 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 12.7 | 15.2 | 20 | 19.7 | 26 | 27.8 | 24 | 20 | 13.3 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 8.8 |
| Cloud cover | 27% | 29% | 29% | 28% | 26% | 24% | 25% | 23% | 20% | 19% | 22% | 27% |
| Sea temperature | 28° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 27° |
| Daylight | 12h 37 | 12h 25 | 12h 10 | 11h 53 | 11h 40 | 11h 34 | 11h 36 | 11h 47 | 12h 03 | 12h 18 | 12h 33 | 12h 41 |
| Month score | 59 | 55 | 55 | 56 | 59 | 63 | 66 | 66 | 66 | 82 | 80 | 69 |