Ideal weather days in São Paulo
The best time to visit São Paulo for warm, dry weather is March to September, with 23 to 28 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at São Paulo's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in March to September.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in São Paulo, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet72
- Too hot14
- Too windy7
- Too cold6
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), São Paulo averaged 275 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 September (up to 18 a month, 86 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in June and July (up to 21 a month, 75 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 72 a year, mostly in November to February. Another 14 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in September and November. A day can fail more than one test.
São Paulo weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28 °C 82 °F | 12 | 0 | 0 | 21 of 31 |
| February | 30 °C 85 °F | 14 | 1 | 1 | 14 of 28 |
| March | 30 °C 85 °F | 8 | 0 | 2 | 23 of 31 |
| April | 27 °C 81 °F | 6 | 0 | 1 | 25 of 30 |
| May | 26 °C 78 °F | 3 | 1 | 7 | 27 of 31 |
| June | 25 °C 77 °F | 3 | 0 | 9 | 27 of 30 |
| July | 23 °C 73 °F | 1 | 1 | 11 | 28 of 31 |
| August | 26 °C 78 °F | 4 | 0 | 13 | 28 of 31 |
| September | 30 °C 86 °F | 2 | 2 | 14 | 24 of 30 |
| October | 26 °C 79 °F | 9 | 0 | 5 | 22 of 31 |
| November | 29 °C 84 °F | 11 | 0 | 2 | 16 of 30 |
| December | 30 °C 86 °F | 10 | 1 | 1 | 20 of 31 |
| Year | 84 | 7 | 66 | 275 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 263 warm, dry days
- 2024 285 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit São Paulo for good weather?
The best time to visit São Paulo for warm, dry weather is March to September, with 23 to 28 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in September (up to 18 a month, 86 a year). Counted from measured days at Congonhas Deputado Freitas Nobre station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in São Paulo?
On average 84 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was February (14 rain days), the driest July (1).
How many sunny days does São Paulo get a year?
About 66 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 (14).
How warm does São Paulo get?
The median daily high ranged from 23 °C (73 °F) in July to 30 °C (86 °F) in September.
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Source: Congonhas Deputado Freitas Nobre weather station (83780099999), 9 km from the centre of São Paulo, 802 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 84% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.