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Fortaleza weather

Ceara · 2,400,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 15:06

Air: Fair Low storm risk · Today, Thu, Fri

30°

Clear sky

Feels like 39°C

Wind

23 km/h

Gusts

27 km/h

Humidity

61 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 05:10 Set 17:24 Day 12 h 14 min UV 12 · Extreme

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Clear sky

30°

Feels like 39°

Wind ↑ ESE 27 km/h

Humidity 61 %

Evening

Clear sky

28°27°

Feels like 37°

Wind ↑ ENE 19 km/h

Gusts 32 km/h

Humidity 70 %

15:00

30°

E 23

18:00

28°

ENE 17

Fortaleza forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Fortaleza climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 29 °C in April to 30 °C in November, and the coolest nights (August) average 24 °C.

Swimmers find the warmest sea in April (29 °C) and the coolest in September (26 °C).

The wet season is concentrated from February to April, which brings 57% of the annual total; April by itself averages 259 mm.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 30 °C, against a usual 30 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	29 °C	25 °C	106 mm	28 °C
Feb	29 °C	25 °C	145 mm	28 °C
Mar	29 °C	25 °C	206 mm	29 °C
Apr	29 °C	25 °C	259 mm	29 °C
May	29 °C	25 °C	140 mm	29 °C
Jun	29 °C	25 °C	82 mm	28 °C
Jul	29 °C	24 °C	44 mm	27 °C
Aug	30 °C	24 °C	13 mm	27 °C
Sep	30 °C	25 °C	8 mm	27 °C
Oct	30 °C	25 °C	11 mm	27 °C
Nov	30 °C	26 °C	14 mm	27 °C
Dec	30 °C	26 °C	38 mm	28 °C
Whole year	29 °C	25 °C	1,070 mm	28 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 3.72° S, 38.47° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Fortaleza: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.511µg/m³

PM1018µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Fortaleza

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Fortaleza, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Fortaleza yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Fortaleza

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 14:48 Set 02:07

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Fortaleza); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Fortaleza

Tide station used: Fortaleza

🌊 Sea surface

28.3 °C

satellite, 29/10

Sea state

Smooth

waves 1.2 m

Period

5 s

Swell

0.5 m

TodayThu 29/10

Low tide 00:13 0.3 m

High tide 06:30 2.8 m

Low tide 12:28 0.6 m

High tide 18:45 3.0 m

TomorrowFri 30/10

Low tide 01:04 0.4 m

High tide 07:24 2.6 m

Low tide 13:19 0.8 m

High tide 19:40 2.8 m

SatSat 31/10

Low tide 02:01 0.6 m

High tide 08:27 2.4 m

Low tide 14:19 0.9 m

High tide 20:45 2.6 m

SunSun 01/11

Low tide 03:11 0.8 m

High tide 09:43 2.3 m

Low tide 15:35 1.1 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest. · more tide detail on TidesAtlas

Look up a past day in Fortaleza

Curious about the weather in Fortaleza on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Fortaleza weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Fortaleza, Ceara: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 30 °C (feels like 39 °C) and the wind blows at 23 km/h.

Expected range today: 27 °C to 30 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms, plus the tide times for Fortaleza.

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