Recife weather by month
The best time to visit Recife is September to November — 92/100 in October, 30°C and 11 rainy days. It is good year-round: every month scores within a few points of the best.
The worst month is June at 84/100 — hot, rainy, clean air. See June →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
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Good year-round · worst June (84/100)
- Days
- 30°C
- Nights
- 25°C
- Wet days
- 11
- Sun
- 11.5 h
- Humidity
- 72%
- Daylight
- 12 h
Recife, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Recife 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 Recife through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Recife in October
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.
Busyone of its best months for weather(estimated)
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Good to know before you go to Recife
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Safety
A resident's honest account of Recife's Boa Viagem beach doesn't downplay the risk: shark attacks are an officially recognized and tracked hazard here, not an urban legend, with dozens of documented incidents since the early 1990s. Their advice reflects how locals actually treat it, with awareness rather than avoidance: never go past knee-deep water, prefer low tide, and take the posted warning flags and lifeguard signage seriously rather than as decoration, while still enjoying the sand and the rest of Recife's many other beaches.
Traveller notes on Recife
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Forum posters describe Brazil's northeastern coast, Recife included, as holding mild-to-hot temperatures around 30C essentially year-round, with the rainy season here running roughly March through July - the opposite timing from the beach-friendly dry stretch that dominates much of the rest of the country's calendar. Posters are direct that April and May specifically rank among the rainiest months for this stretch of coast, making it a weaker pick than usual for beach-focused travel, with several recommending September through February instead for anyone prioritizing dry, sunny beach days in Brazil's Northeast. Posters generally rate April as warm but genuinely rain-prone for Recife, workable for a visit not centered purely on beach time.
Forum posters name October as squarely outside the northeastern Brazilian rainy season, which runs roughly April through July for Recife and its neighboring coastal cities - so great beach weather is the general expectation for Recife, Salvador, Natal and the surrounding coast this time of year. With the wetter months already well behind, posters treat October as one of the more reliable stretches for sun and warm sea temperatures along this stretch of coast, distinct from the heavier rain risk earlier in the year. As with the rest of Brazil's northeast, posters recommend the usual reef-and-tide awareness for Recife's beaches given the offshore reef formations that shape swimming conditions depending on the tide.
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