Manaus weather by month: averages, rainfall & climate trends
At the meeting of the Negro and Amazon rivers, Manaus is a metropolis in the heart of the rainforest, a city whose life has always been set by heat, humidity and the rise and fall of the water. Manaus weather by month: average temperatures, rainfall, records and how the climate has changed since 1940.
Today vs average
+0.6°Chigh near average
How it's changed
+1.4°Caverage temperature, 2016–2025 vs 1940–1949average temperature vs 1940–49258days above 30°C a year now (2016–2025) · 95 in the 1940sdays above 30°C · 95 in the 1940s+1.4°C vs the 1940s · see how it's changed →Weather by montha typical year, averaged over the full recordJanuary, rain 289 mmhigh 30°low 24°February, rain 288 mmhigh 30°low 24°March, rain 349 mmhigh 30°low 24°April, rain 342 mmhigh 29°low 24°May, rain 284 mmhigh 30°low 24°June, rain 160 mmhigh 30°low 23°July, rain 109 mmhigh 30°low 23°August, rain 105 mmhigh 31°low 24°September, rain 127 mmhigh 32°low 24°October, rain 154 mmhigh 32°low 24°November, rain 202 mmhigh 31°low 24°December, rain 282 mmhigh 30°low 24°wettest month March, 349 mm · 2,691 mm a yearsee month by month →Right now
What it's doing today vs the historical average for this date.Right now
29.8°
On this date: October 18
High near average · +0.6°C
- Record high: 37.4° · 2015
- Record low: 22.6° · 1999
- One year ago: 34° / 25°
Every October 18 in history, coldest to hottest
Dots show daily highs (top) and lows (bottom) for each October 18 on record (n = 87). Outlined dots are today's forecast.
Area we sample
Each city's history comes from one ERA5 grid cell, about 28 km across, shown by the dashed box. Near mountains or coasts, conditions can vary across the cell.
Location & data
Historical weather for Manaus is sampled from the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at 3.10°S, 60.02°W, with daily records since 1940.
- Coordinates
- 3.10°S, 60.02°W
- Time zone
- America/Manaus
- Period
- 1940–2026
- Data source
- ERA5 (ECMWF)
Last 30 days
30 of the last 31 days were warmer than the historical average for that date. Average difference: +3.3°C.
Each bar is one day, from morning low to afternoon high. Warm-colored bars are days whose mean ran above average; cool bars ran below. The dot inside the bar is the daily mean. The shaded band is the typical 10–90% range expected for that date. Average = the day's mean temperature averaged across every year of record (1940–2026) for that calendar date.
This date over the years
One dot per year, showing the mean temperature on this calendar date. Dots are warmer or cooler than the long-term average (dashed line); the shaded band is the typical 10–90% range, and the highlighted dot is today's forecast. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Weather by month
Average temperatures and rainfall for each month: a typical year, from the full record.Climate overview
Manaus stands deep in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil, near the confluence of the Negro and Amazon rivers. The climate is tropical monsoon (Köppen Am): rainfall in the least-wet month comes in just under the cutoff for a true rainforest climate. Heat and heavy humidity persist all year, so the real seasons are wet and dry: the rains pour from December through May, with thunderstorms a near-daily event at the height of the wet season, while July to September brings a relative lull.
The dry season carries some of the region's sharpest risks. During the drought of 2023, the Rio Negro fell to extraordinarily low levels, stranding river communities that depend on boats for food, clean water and fuel, while smoke from surrounding wildfires blanketed Manaus and left many of its two million residents struggling to breathe. Scientists concluded that human-driven climate change, more than El Niño, was the primary force behind those conditions, a sign of how the Amazon's balance is shifting.
The warmest month is October, with typical afternoon highs of 31.8°C and nights around 24.4°C. The coolest month is January, when afternoons reach about 29.5°C and overnight lows sit around 23.6°C.
The yearly total for Manaus comes to about 2,691 mm; monthly amounts range from 105 mm in August up to 349 mm in March.
Over the full record (since 1940), the annual mean temperature in Manaus has risen by 1.4°C between its first decade and its last. Days above 30°C have grown noticeably more frequent, from around 95 a year in the first decade to about 260 in the last.
Climate graph (climograph)
October is the warmest month, January the coolest: a yearly swing of 2°C. Wettest month: March (~349 mm). Whole year averages ~2,691 mm of rain.
Bars = average monthly rainfall (right axis). Lines = average daily high and low (left axis). Average = each month's value averaged across every year of record (1940–2026).
Monthly wind
Average daily peak wind at 10 m, by month.
Monthly solar energy
Average daily incoming solar energy in megajoules per square metre: the record's own proxy for how sunny the month is.
Manaus month by month: what to expect
Typical conditions for each month, averaged across the full record (since 1940). Daylight is the time from sunrise to sunset. Record high/low are the most extreme values in the ERA5 dataset (modelled since 1940), so they can differ from official weather-station readings.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Rain | Daylight | Record high | Record low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.5° | 23.6° | 289 mm | 12.2 h | 36.6° (2016) | 20.6° (1944) |
| February | 29.5° | 23.7° | 288 mm | 12.1 h | 35.3° (1983) | 21.4° (1956) |
| March | 29.6° | 23.8° | 349 mm | 12.0 h | 34.4° (2010) | 21.6° (2000) |
| April | 29.5° | 23.7° | 342 mm | 11.9 h | 34.0° (2016) | 21.4° (1971) |
| May | 29.5° | 23.6° | 284 mm | 11.9 h | 33.8° (1983) | 21.4° (1977) |
| June | 29.8° | 23.3° | 160 mm | 11.8 h | 33.4° (1983) | 20.3° (2001) |
| July | 30.3° | 23.2° | 109 mm | 11.8 h | 35.3° (1958) | 19.1° (1981) |
| August | 31.4° | 23.7° | 105 mm | 11.9 h | 37.1° (1961) | 20.7° (1978) |
| September | 31.9° | 24.1° | 127 mm | 12.0 h | 39.0° (2015) | 21.5° (1970) |
| October | 31.8° | 24.4° | 154 mm | 12.1 h | 39.6° (1963) | 21.6° (2022) |
| November | 31.1° | 24.2° | 202 mm | 12.1 h | 37.3° (2023) | 22.1° (1940) |
| December | 30.0° | 23.8° | 282 mm | 12.2 h | 36.8° (2015) | 21.8° (1964) |
How it's changed
Year-by-year signals from 1940 to today.Climate stripes
Annual mean shifted from 1940–1949 to 2016–2025 by +1.4°C.
Each vertical stripe is one year. Color encodes how much that year's annual mean differed from the long-term average. Average = each year's annual mean compared to the average of all years (1940–2026). cooler ← → warmer
Annual mean temperature
Long-term trend: +0.17°C per decade.
One point per year, showing the temperature averaged across the whole year. The dashed line is the least-squares long-term trend. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Seasonal warming
Jun–Aug is warming fastest: +0.22°C per decade.
Each faint line is one three-month period's average per year; the bold dashed line is its long-term trend. Different parts of the year often warm at different rates. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Hot days vs frost days
Days ≥ 30°C per year: 94.6 early in the record → 258.4 recently. Frost days: 0 → 0.
Thin lines are raw yearly counts; thick lines are the smoothed trend that removes year-to-year noise. The hot-day threshold is auto-picked per city so the line actually moves. Average = a centered 5-year rolling average to smooth weather noise.
Yearly hot & cold extremes
All-time high in 1963, all-time low in 1981: 39.6°C / 19.1°C.
One point per year: the single hottest and coldest day recorded that year.
Annual rainfall
~2,691 mm/year on average. Last decade: −4% vs that average. Long-term trend: +52 mm per decade.
One bar per year of total rainfall. Dashed line is the long-term average. Average = the average annual rainfall across every year of record (1940–2026).
Day-by-day grid
Each tiny square is one calendar day across the full record, about 30,000 days per city. Use the mode switch above the chart: Anomaly colors each day by how far it ran from the historical average for that date (red = warmer, blue = cooler), Daily mean temp shows the absolute mean temperature for the day (useful to see seasons and heatwaves), and Precipitation shows daily rainfall (useful to spot wet/dry seasons and droughts). Average = the long-term average for that calendar date (1940–2026).
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