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Petrolina weather

Pernambuco · 418,444 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 14:02

Air: Fair Heatwave risk · 14 d

28°

Clear sky

Feels like 34°C

Wind

20 km/h

Gusts

25 km/h

Humidity

57 %

Pressure

1017 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 05:12 Set 17:38 Day 12 h 25 min UV 12 · Extreme

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Clear sky

35°33°

Feels like 39°

Wind ↑ ESE 19 km/h

Humidity 28 %

Evening

Clear sky

35°28°

Feels like 35°

Wind ↑ SE 19 km/h

Gusts 37 km/h

Humidity 18 %

15:00

35°

ESE 14

18:00

35°

SE 10

Petrolina forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.1° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Petrolina climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from August to June; the typical peak is 35 °C in October.

A normal year brings roughly 430 mm of rain — less than 90% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is December, when afternoons average 34 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 20 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from January to March, which brings 59% of the annual total; March by itself averages 90 mm.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 37 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (35 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	33 °C	23 °C	88 mm
Feb	33 °C	23 °C	75 mm
Mar	33 °C	23 °C	90 mm
Apr	33 °C	23 °C	40 mm
May	32 °C	22 °C	16 mm
Jun	30 °C	21 °C	8 mm
Jul	30 °C	20 °C	7 mm
Aug	31 °C	20 °C	4 mm
Sep	33 °C	20 °C	3 mm
Oct	35 °C	22 °C	12 mm
Nov	34 °C	23 °C	34 mm
Dec	34 °C	23 °C	53 mm
Whole year	33 °C	22 °C	430 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 9.40° S, 40.50° 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 Petrolina: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.510µg/m³

PM1012µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Petrolina

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

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

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

Moon over Petrolina

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 15:09 Set 02:03

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/Recife); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Petrolina

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

Petrolina weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Petrolina, Pernambuco: 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 28 °C (feels like 34 °C) and the wind blows at 20 km/h.

Expected range today: 23 °C to 35 °C and a dry sky; it will be very hot. 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.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations