Brazil travel tips

Best time to visit Brazil

Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Brazil agrees on Mar, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.

PlaceJFMAMJJASONDIn words
Rio de JaneiroMay to September (dry, mild winter)May to September (dry, mild winter)
Foz do IguaçuMarch to May, August to OctoberMarch to May, August to October
SalvadorSeptember to MarchSeptember to March
FlorianópolisNovember to AprilNovember to April
ManausJune to NovemberJune to November
FortalezaJuly to DecemberJuly to December

best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.

The guides in Brazil

aerial photography of cityscape near seaRio de JaneiroBrazilBeaches, samba, and Christ the RedeemerA rainbow over the falls at Iguaçu, seen from the Brazilian sideFoz do IguaçuBrazilThe panorama side of the falls, and the biggest dam ever builtaerial view of city buildings near body of water during daytimeSalvadorBrazilBrazil’s first capital, and the most African city outside AfricaPraia Brava on the north of the island of Florianópolis, seen from the headlandFlorianópolisBrazilAn island with forty-two beaches, and a different one for every moodbird’s eye-view photography of cityscape during golden hourManausBrazilAn opera house in the rainforest, and two rivers that refuse to mixThe letters spelling Fortaleza on the Beira Mar promenade, between the palmsFortalezaBrazilTwenty-five kilometres of city beach, and the windiest coast in Brazil