Pacaraima climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Pacaraima?

Pacaraima has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.3 °C and it receives 2,156 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Pacaraima?

The hottest day measured in Pacaraima between 1940 and 2025 was 5 March 1998, reaching 34.0 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Pacaraima?

The coldest day measured in Pacaraima between 1940 and 2025 was 10 December 1970, at 13.8 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Pacaraima?

Almost never: Pacaraima sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Pacaraima warmed?

Yes: Pacaraima warmed by +1.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Pacaraima?

The wettest day measured in Pacaraima between 1940 and 2025 was 13 May 1962, with 181 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Pacaraima?

The windiest day measured in Pacaraima between 1940 and 2025 was 7 January 1989, with winds reaching 19.4 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Pacaraima?

The warmest month in Pacaraima is March (23.2 °C on average); the coldest is July (21.2 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Pacaraima?

Pacaraima receives on average 2,156 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 243 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Pacaraima?

Pacaraima gets on average 10.6 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,869 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Pacaraima (Brazil) has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 22.3 °C and it receives 2,156 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is March (23.2 °C on average) and the coldest is July (21.2 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.

Pacaraima averages 0 frost days, 32 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 243 rainy days per year.

Pacaraima has warmed by +1.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.19 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 34.0 °C (on 5 March 1998) and the coldest 13.8 °C (on 10 December 1970).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

PacaraimaRoraima

coords: 4.43°, -61.15°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AfTropical rainforestWarmest monthMarchColdest monthJulyWettest monthMayDriest monthFebruary

Mean daily temperature

22.3°C

Average daily high

27.4°C

Average daily low

18.2°C

Annual rainfall

2,156mm

Sunshine / day

10.6h

Mean relative humidity

82%

Average peak wind

8.8km/h

Seasonal range

2.0°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

32 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

243 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

31.0 °C

Average feels-like low

20.2 °C

Average peak gust

30.1 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

16 d/yr

Solar radiation

18.8 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.6 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.59 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

34.0 °C

5 March 1998

Coldest day

13.8 °C

10 December 1970

Wettest day

181 mm

13 May 1962

Windiest day

19.4 km/h

7 January 1989

Strongest gust

54.4 km/h

5 July 1979

Hottest feels-like

37.6 °C

16 October 1997

Coldest feels-like

12.8 °C

10 March 1944

Sunniest day

12.0 h

24 April 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	31.0 °C21 September 2025	16.4 °C14 January 2025	22.9 °C	2,176 mm	28
2024	33.6 °C14 March 2024	17.0 °C4 January 2024	23.8 °C	1,969 mm	132
2023	33.4 °C2 October 2023	15.0 °C26 January 2023	23.3 °C	1,801 mm	116
2022	31.1 °C2 April 2022	14.8 °C25 December 2022	22.5 °C	3,057 mm	8
2021	31.8 °C7 October 2021	16.5 °C26 January 2021	22.8 °C	2,843 mm	20
2020	32.2 °C7 March 2020	16.0 °C7 January 2020	23.3 °C	2,185 mm	82
2019	33.4 °C24 March 2019	16.5 °C25 February 2019	23.5 °C	2,374 mm	110
2018	32.8 °C2 April 2018	16.0 °C6 January 2018	23.0 °C	2,340 mm	70
2017	31.6 °C18 November 2017	16.8 °C2 July 2017	23.1 °C	2,499 mm	56
2016	33.5 °C22 March 2016	16.9 °C24 January 2016	23.5 °C	2,111 mm	103
2015	31.9 °C5 October 2015	15.4 °C11 September 2015	23.2 °C	1,736 mm	63
2014	31.8 °C25 September 2014	16.1 °C12 January 2014	22.9 °C	1,915 mm	28
2013	31.8 °C31 January 2013	16.4 °C3 December 2013	22.9 °C	2,214 mm	45
2012	31.7 °C19 November 2012	16.0 °C26 February 2012	22.6 °C	2,475 mm	39
2011	30.7 °C26 September 2011	15.4 °C23 July 2011	22.6 °C	2,507 mm	8
2010	33.0 °C14 February 2010	15.2 °C2 January 2010	22.8 °C	2,720 mm	54
2009	32.4 °C26 May 2009	15.9 °C20 February 2009	23.1 °C	1,579 mm	41
2008	31.4 °C5 April 2008	16.0 °C16 July 2008	22.4 °C	2,527 mm	10
2007	32.3 °C3 March 2007	16.0 °C5 February 2007	22.7 °C	2,219 mm	41
2006	32.1 °C7 April 2006	15.9 °C15 February 2006	22.7 °C	2,348 mm	35
2005	32.5 °C6 March 2005	16.2 °C25 January 2005	23.0 °C	2,163 mm	55
2004	31.9 °C17 November 2004	16.3 °C29 January 2004	22.9 °C	1,948 mm	53
2003	32.5 °C18 February 2003	16.3 °C2 January 2003	22.9 °C	2,165 mm	65
2002	32.0 °C17 October 2002	15.2 °C2 January 2002	22.9 °C	2,024 mm	60
2001	31.8 °C12 April 2001	15.5 °C15 September 2001	22.7 °C	1,851 mm	48
2000	30.1 °C12 March 2000	15.3 °C8 July 2000	22.2 °C	2,402 mm	1
1999	31.0 °C20 December 1999	16.2 °C17 May 1999	22.3 °C	2,617 mm	7
1998	34.0 °C5 March 1998	15.9 °C4 September 1998	23.4 °C	2,036 mm	96
1997	33.4 °C17 October 1997	15.6 °C12 September 1997	23.1 °C	1,624 mm	57
1996	31.3 °C8 April 1996	15.7 °C5 March 1996	22.6 °C	2,226 mm	27
1995	31.4 °C10 April 1995	15.4 °C2 January 1995	22.7 °C	2,070 mm	35
1994	31.6 °C25 February 1994	16.1 °C14 October 1994	22.4 °C	2,110 mm	6
1993	30.0 °C9 February 1993	15.5 °C20 January 1993	22.2 °C	2,139 mm	1
1992	31.8 °C3 November 1992	15.6 °C19 January 1992	22.5 °C	1,552 mm	9
1991	30.8 °C5 May 1991	16.1 °C15 January 1991	22.4 °C	1,908 mm	13
1990	30.9 °C13 October 1990	15.6 °C11 September 1990	22.4 °C	2,217 mm	4
1989	30.3 °C13 September 1989	14.6 °C8 January 1989	22.0 °C	2,197 mm	1
1988	31.8 °C6 May 1988	16.0 °C4 October 1988	22.6 °C	2,036 mm	31
1987	31.9 °C14 April 1987	15.9 °C26 January 1987	22.8 °C	1,826 mm	18
1986	30.4 °C26 April 1986	15.8 °C19 February 1986	22.2 °C	2,109 mm	4
1985	31.4 °C11 April 1985	14.9 °C17 December 1985	22.0 °C	2,087 mm	18
1984	31.7 °C22 April 1984	16.2 °C5 February 1984	21.9 °C	2,446 mm	11
1983	31.7 °C17 February 1983	15.0 °C11 February 1983	22.8 °C	1,691 mm	23
1982	30.8 °C30 September 1982	15.6 °C14 September 1982	22.3 °C	1,805 mm	12
1981	30.7 °C2 April 1981	15.2 °C28 March 1981	22.1 °C	2,217 mm	11
1980	30.8 °C3 April 1980	14.6 °C30 January 1980	22.2 °C	1,834 mm	26
1979	31.7 °C17 February 1979	15.6 °C6 February 1979	22.3 °C	2,224 mm	25
1978	30.9 °C26 February 1978	15.3 °C28 October 1978	22.1 °C	2,321 mm	12
1977	31.3 °C26 February 1977	15.4 °C22 January 1977	22.3 °C	2,052 mm	12
1976	30.7 °C15 September 1976	14.5 °C12 August 1976	21.7 °C	2,460 mm	9
1975	30.3 °C9 March 1975	14.9 °C10 September 1975	21.7 °C	2,593 mm	2
1974	29.7 °C21 February 1974	14.2 °C18 October 1974	21.5 °C	2,299 mm	0
1973	31.2 °C30 March 1973	15.6 °C2 June 1973	22.2 °C	2,527 mm	30
1972	30.3 °C23 December 1972	15.5 °C15 July 1972	21.9 °C	2,198 mm	1
1971	30.7 °C10 March 1971	15.3 °C8 September 1971	21.7 °C	1,990 mm	6
1970	30.6 °C10 March 1970	13.8 °C10 December 1970	21.9 °C	2,395 mm	7
1969	30.6 °C16 March 1969	16.3 °C22 July 1969	22.1 °C	2,530 mm	5
1968	30.5 °C27 March 1968	15.7 °C14 February 1968	22.0 °C	2,311 mm	5
1967	31.0 °C2 March 1967	14.3 °C1 January 1967	22.0 °C	2,185 mm	9
1966	32.5 °C16 February 1966	15.2 °C3 February 1966	22.7 °C	1,793 mm	74
1965	31.8 °C22 March 1965	14.2 °C4 January 1965	22.5 °C	1,444 mm	51
1964	33.5 °C24 March 1964	15.1 °C20 January 1964	23.0 °C	1,889 mm	111
1963	32.4 °C17 October 1963	15.4 °C17 December 1963	22.4 °C	2,002 mm	42
1962	31.6 °C8 October 1962	15.3 °C1 January 1962	22.1 °C	2,277 mm	21
1961	31.6 °C13 March 1961	14.8 °C13 February 1961	22.2 °C	1,909 mm	28
1960	31.2 °C5 April 1960	15.1 °C7 January 1960	22.1 °C	2,144 mm	13
1959	30.9 °C2 March 1959	15.2 °C6 August 1959	22.1 °C	2,152 mm	17
1958	32.2 °C2 February 1958	15.9 °C28 December 1958	22.6 °C	1,912 mm	76
1957	32.8 °C17 April 1957	15.0 °C22 January 1957	22.4 °C	1,503 mm	76
1956	30.3 °C8 March 1956	13.9 °C17 September 1956	21.1 °C	2,521 mm	3
1955	30.3 °C16 February 1955	14.0 °C19 January 1955	21.2 °C	2,643 mm	1
1954	31.8 °C23 March 1954	14.3 °C6 September 1954	21.5 °C	2,341 mm	13
1953	31.3 °C8 November 1953	15.5 °C10 January 1953	22.1 °C	2,090 mm	23
1952	32.4 °C20 April 1952	15.4 °C4 September 1952	22.2 °C	1,635 mm	56
1951	30.3 °C19 October 1951	15.6 °C15 December 1951	21.6 °C	2,183 mm	2
1950	30.2 °C20 September 1950	14.1 °C13 September 1950	21.5 °C	2,213 mm	1
1949	28.6 °C15 April 1949	14.9 °C11 February 1949	21.1 °C	2,480 mm	0
1948	30.6 °C11 February 1948	15.1 °C14 January 1948	21.5 °C	2,301 mm	8
1947	33.2 °C29 March 1947	14.7 °C18 December 1947	22.1 °C	1,670 mm	53
1946	29.7 °C31 March 1946	14.9 °C16 February 1946	21.3 °C	2,368 mm	0
1945	32.4 °C30 September 1945	14.7 °C5 December 1945	21.8 °C	1,958 mm	19
1944	30.6 °C15 February 1944	14.3 °C19 January 1944	21.6 °C	2,284 mm	9
1943	28.8 °C6 November 1943	14.5 °C11 August 1943	20.6 °C	3,180 mm	0
1942	31.4 °C16 March 1942	14.7 °C4 September 1942	21.4 °C	2,408 mm	18
1941	33.7 °C29 March 1941	14.6 °C13 September 1941	22.4 °C	1,532 mm	51
1940	33.9 °C26 February 1940	14.5 °C21 August 1940	22.3 °C	1,640 mm	59

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.8 °C

+0.4 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

28 d/yr

-4

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

2176 mm

+20 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	28.2 °C	+0.3 °C	73 mm	-9 mm
Feb	28.7 °C	+0.3 °C	56 mm	-22 mm
Mar	28.1 °C	-0.6 °C	186 mm	+70 mm
Apr	27.5 °C	-0.2 °C	194 mm	-35 mm
May	27.0 °C	+0.6 °C	355 mm	-9 mm
Jun	26.5 °C	+0.8 °C	334 mm	+8 mm
Jul	26.4 °C	+0.7 °C	277 mm	+7 mm
Aug	27.4 °C	+0.7 °C	180 mm	-12 mm
Sep	29.1 °C	+1.1 °C	75 mm	-46 mm
Oct	28.5 °C	0.0 °C	150 mm	+28 mm
Nov	28.3 °C	+0.3 °C	168 mm	+28 mm
Dec	27.4 °C	-0.2 °C	130 mm	+12 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

31.0 °C

21 Sep 2025

Coldest day

16.4 °C

14 Jan 2025

Wettest day

35.2 mm

21 Jun 2025

Windiest day

14.3 km/h

1 Sep 2025

Strongest gust

44.6 km/h

2 Jun 2025

Hottest feels-like

35.5 °C

29 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

16.6 °C

14 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

12.0 h

11 Apr 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Pacaraima?

Pacaraima has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.3 °C and it receives 2,156 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Pacaraima?

The hottest day measured in Pacaraima between 1940 and 2025 was 5 March 1998, reaching 34.0 °C.

What is the coldest day in Pacaraima?

The coldest day measured in Pacaraima between 1940 and 2025 was 10 December 1970, at 13.8 °C.

Does it snow in Pacaraima?

Almost never: Pacaraima sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Pacaraima warmed?

Yes: Pacaraima warmed by +1.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Pacaraima?

The wettest day measured in Pacaraima between 1940 and 2025 was 13 May 1962, with 181 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Pacaraima?

The windiest day measured in Pacaraima between 1940 and 2025 was 7 January 1989, with winds reaching 19.4 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Pacaraima?

The warmest month in Pacaraima is March (23.2 °C on average); the coldest is July (21.2 °C).

How much does it rain in Pacaraima?

Pacaraima receives on average 2,156 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 243 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Pacaraima?

Pacaraima gets on average 10.6 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,869 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Pacaraima?

Yes: Pacaraima has on average 16 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Pacaraima?

In Pacaraima, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 37.6 °C on 16 October 1997, and the lowest was 12.8 °C on 10 March 1944.

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