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Recife weather

Pernambuco · 1,653,461 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 13:52

Air: Good Moderate storm risk · Mon

30°

Rain showers

Feels like 39°C

Wind

16 km/h

Gusts

19 km/h

Humidity

58 %

Pressure

1016 hPa

Clouds

15 %

Storm

Rise 04:51 Set 17:14 Day 12 h 22 min UV 11 · Extreme

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Clear sky

31°

Feels like 39°

Wind ↑ ESE 19 km/h

Humidity 53 %

Evening

Clear sky

26°

Feels like 36°

Wind ↑ SE 11 km/h

Gusts 22 km/h

Humidity 79 %

15:00

31°

SE 17

18:00

26°

ESE 10

Recife 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)

Recife climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 27 °C in July to 30 °C in February, and the coolest nights (August) average 22 °C.

Days are almost the same length all year: 11 h 39 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 35 min in late December.

A normal year brings roughly 1,070 mm of rain — more than 54% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	24 °C	69 mm
Feb	30 °C	24 °C	75 mm
Mar	30 °C	24 °C	94 mm
Apr	30 °C	24 °C	120 mm
May	28 °C	23 °C	137 mm
Jun	27 °C	23 °C	155 mm
Jul	27 °C	22 °C	140 mm
Aug	27 °C	22 °C	89 mm
Sep	28 °C	22 °C	59 mm
Oct	29 °C	23 °C	45 mm
Nov	29 °C	23 °C	39 mm
Dec	30 °C	24 °C	46 mm
Whole year	29 °C	23 °C	1,070 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 8.05° S, 34.88° 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 Recife: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.58µg/m³

PM1014µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Recife

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Recife, 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 Recife yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Recife

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 14:43 Set 01:42

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 Recife

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

Recife weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Recife, Pernambuco: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 30 °C (feels like 39 °C) and the wind blows at 16 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 31 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Olinda 6 km 29°

Paulista 13 km 29°

Jaboatão 19 km 29°

João Pessoa 104 km 29°

Caruaru 123 km 28°

Campina Grande 143 km 28°

Maceió 202 km 28°

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