Ideal weather days in Salvador
The best time to visit Salvador for warm, dry weather is September to October and December to January, with 23 to 27 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Salvador's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in September to October and December 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 Salvador, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet99
- Too windy31
- Too hot0
- Too cold0
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), Salvador averaged 243 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 and December (up to 20 a month, 140 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): 99 a year, mostly in May and June. Another 31 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in October and November. A day can fail more than one test.
Salvador weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 °C 87 °F | 4 | 1 | 1 | 27 of 31 |
| February | 31 °C 88 °F | 11 | 1 | 0 | 19 of 28 |
| March | 31 °C 88 °F | 11 | 0 | 0 | 22 of 31 |
| April | 31 °C 88 °F | 13 | 0 | 1 | 19 of 30 |
| May | 30 °C 85 °F | 21 | 2 | 0 | 11 of 31 |
| June | 29 °C 83 °F | 15 | 3 | 1 | 16 of 30 |
| July | 28 °C 82 °F | 11 | 3 | 0 | 21 of 31 |
| August | 28 °C 82 °F | 12 | 4 | 1 | 19 of 31 |
| September | 28 °C 82 °F | 10 | 1 | 1 | 24 of 30 |
| October | 29 °C 84 °F | 3 | 7 | 1 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 30 °C 86 °F | 8 | 8 | 0 | 17 of 30 |
| December | 30 °C 86 °F | 5 | 3 | 0 | 24 of 31 |
| Year | 124 | 31 | 5 | 243 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 234 warm, dry days
- 2024 245 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Salvador for good weather?
The best time to visit Salvador for warm, dry weather is September to October and December to January, with 23 to 27 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in October and December (up to 20 a month, 140 a year). Counted from measured days at Deputado Luis Eduardo Magalhaes station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Salvador?
On average 124 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (21 rain days), the driest October (3).
How many sunny days does Salvador get a year?
About 5 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 September (1).
How warm does Salvador get?
The median daily high ranged from 28 °C (82 °F) in July to 31 °C (88 °F) in February.
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Source: Deputado Luis Eduardo Magalhaes weather station (83248099999), 19 km from the centre of Salvador, 20 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.