Ideal weather days in Recife
The best time to visit Recife for warm, dry weather is October to January, with 24 to 27 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Recife's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in October to January.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Recife, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet113
- Too windy29
- Too cold0
- Too hot0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Recife averaged 231 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Brazil, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in October (up to 17 a month, 102 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 0.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 113 a year, mostly in May and June. Another 29 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in July, August and September. A day can fail more than one test.
Recife weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 °C 88 °F | 7 | 0 | 0 | 25 of 31 |
| February | 31 °C 88 °F | 11 | 2 | 0 | 18 of 28 |
| March | 31 °C 88 °F | 13 | 1 | 0 | 20 of 31 |
| April | 31 °C 88 °F | 14 | 0 | 1 | 20 of 30 |
| May | 30 °C 86 °F | 19 | 0 | 0 | 14 of 31 |
| June | 29 °C 84 °F | 21 | 2 | 0 | 11 of 30 |
| July | 28 °C 82 °F | 15 | 6 | 0 | 16 of 31 |
| August | 29 °C 83 °F | 13 | 8 | 1 | 16 of 31 |
| September | 29 °C 84 °F | 10 | 7 | 0 | 17 of 30 |
| October | 30 °C 86 °F | 5 | 4 | 1 | 24 of 31 |
| November | 31 °C 87 °F | 3 | 1 | 1 | 27 of 30 |
| December | 31 °C 87 °F | 8 | 1 | 0 | 24 of 31 |
| Year | 139 | 31 | 4 | 231 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 222 warm, dry days
- 2024 241 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Recife for good weather?
The best time to visit Recife for warm, dry weather is October to January, with 24 to 27 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in October (up to 17 a month, 102 a year). Counted from measured days at Guararapes Gilberto Freyre International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Recife?
On average 139 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was June (21 rain days), the driest November (3).
How many sunny days does Recife get a year?
About 4 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in August (1).
How warm does Recife get?
The median daily high ranged from 28 °C (82 °F) in July to 31 °C (88 °F) in January.
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Source: Guararapes Gilberto Freyre International weather station (82899099999), 10 km from the centre of Recife, 10 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 82% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.