Búzios weather by month
The best time to visit Búzios is April, June and July — 90/100 in April, 28°C and 8 rainy days. It is good year-round: every month scores within a few points of the best.
The worst month is November at 82/100 — hot, soaked, clean air. See November →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
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Good year-round · worst November (82/100)
- Days
- 28°C
- Nights
- 21°C
- Wet days
- 8
- Sun
- 9.9 h
- Humidity
- 79%
- Daylight
- 12 h
Búzios, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Búzios is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Búzios through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
- February
- Carnaval week14–18 FebFestival
- March
- Semana Santa long weekend3–5 AprHoliday
- April
- Búzios Jazz Festival1–3 MayFestival
- June
- Humpback whales off Arraial15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)Nature
- July
- Festa de Sant'Anna24–26 JulFestival
- November
- Cold-water upwelling1 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)Nature
- December
- High summer20 Dec – 28 FebSeason
Crowds in Búzios in April
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
BusySemana Santa long weekend(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Búzios
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Visas & entry
A solo traveler's guide to Búzios recommends picking a beach to match the mood: Ferradura for calm, shallow water that handles crowds well even in high season, versus Geribá for consistent waves and a proper surf-town energy with schools and space for beach sports. Her practical tip for getting around without a car was that the central areas are genuinely walkable, with taxis, rideshares, minibuses, and water taxis filling in the gaps for beaches further from Rua das Pedras, the town's main shopping and dining strip.
Traveller notes on Búzios
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Forum posters describe April daytime highs typically in the upper-70s to low-80sF (roughly 27-28C), cooling to a comfortable 70F (21C) at night - genuinely pleasant beach weather with lower humidity than the more oppressive summer months. Posters call April the tail end of high season rather than truly low season: prices have come down from peak, beaches are noticeably less crowded, but the town isn't dead either. Landing between Easter and Brazil's mid-April national holiday (the 21st), posters consistently name this as a strong sweet-spot window - cooler, drier, and quieter than peak summer, without yet losing all the energy of the high season crowd.
Búzios' forum generally likes October - pleasant spring temperatures, mostly blue skies, and genuinely low crowds in the first half of the month before an October 12-15 holiday period brings a short price and crowd spike. One quirk worth knowing before picking a beach: the northern beaches (Tartaruga, Azeda, João Fernandes) catch warmer currents while the southern ones (Geribá, Tucuns) run noticeably colder, and an occasional cold-water upwelling from further south can chill things further. Posters treated this as normal, not a reason to avoid the month - just something to factor into which beach to pick.
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