BRAZIL
Best Time to Go & Visit & Travel to BRAZIL


Brazil is a wonderful country with top travel destinations and truly unique tourist features at a world scale. In fact, Brazil has:

- the world’s biggest forest (the Amazon);
- the world’s biggest tropical coast, with thousands of truly exceptional beaches and resorts;
- the world’s biggest waterfalls (the Iguassu Falls),
- the America’s biggest concentration of animal life (the Pantanal)
- unique cities (Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia) where music, exotic elements and the joy and extravagance of their people are truly remarkable and unique.

Best time to travel to Brazil: main destinations

Amazon (the rainforest)
Pantanal (for bird and animal life watching)
Iguassu Falls (the world largest waterfalls)
Rio de Janeiro (the capital of fun and beach life)
Salvador da Bahia (musical and beach life in an afro-american style)
Bahia, Fortaleza, Recife: hubs for world top tropical beaches
Sao Paulo (the business and industrial heart of Brazil)
Brazil's South (Florianopolis, Santa Catarina and other south destinations)


Best time to go and visit Brazil
Weather big picture

Brazil is basically an all-year round destination. But you should consider some weather particularities and conditionings, namely if you intend to travel to the Pantanal or the Amazon. You shouldn’t forget that Brazil is a very wide country, covering half of South America and different climate zones.  

Seasons in Brazil are the reverse of North hemisphere states:

Spring: 22nd September - 21st December
Summer: 22nd December - 21st March
Autumn: 22nd March - 21st June
Winter: 22nd June - 21st September

But we shouldn’t deduce too much from this division. Truly, this four season pattern is only applicable to southern Brazil. Most of Brazil territory shares a two-season pattern: a rainy season (the summer) and a non-rainy one (the winter).

And it is the rain – not the cold – that you should equate if your destination is the Northeast, the Amazon, or even Rio de Janeiro and surroundings. Though most showers usually last no more than one hour or two, with subsequent sun reappearing, there are more persistent rainfalls, namely at regions with pronounced rainy seasons as the Amazon and the Pantanal

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Amazon - Brazil
Best Time to Go

The Amazon is a different world. The world’s biggest forest offers unique and spectacular features. No one can be indifferent to the unbelievable immense green and to the web of life and water sensed everywhere, and to the intense sense of smallness the rainforest causes.

Manaus – a Brazilian city at the heart of the Amazon river and basin – is the best place to visit the Amazon river and rainforest. To explore some treks of the forest and to do some tours in the Amazon, Manaus is the hub you should choose. An alternative is a cruise in the Amazon.


Best time to go and visit the Amazon – Manaus, Brazil

The rainy season begins mid-October in the southern region of brazilian Amazon, and in December in the central zone (Manaus…); it lasts till March (in the south) or to mid-May (in the centre) or even to June, mostly in the north

The «high periods», with more tourists, are July-September and December-January. These periods are within the low water season (July-February), and have significant advantages for your Amazon travel: less rain (sub-period before December), less mosquitoes, easier observation of aquatic life in lakes, better time for fishing or swimming.

But there are some disadvantages for your travel also: temperatures are higher (specially before December), some waterways are more clogged with vegetation, limiting access to wildlife zones; the forest life is less visible except for aquatic life in isolated lakes (the best period for viewing wildlife, in Manaus region, is March-June; this is also a «cooler» period, and a nicer one for your Amazon tours: waterside plants such as acacias, morning glories, or cecropias, flourish at these months).

Some people prefer transitional periods (October and November; and May and June, in the region of Manaus) to visit the Amazon, since they may have some advantages of the rainy and the dryer periods. But there aren’t true rules on that issue. For most people, the more determinant travelling factor is the rain. December to May period can have many rainy days, and that can spoil many visits to the Amazon.

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Rio de Janeiro - Brazil Fun and Parties
Best time to go

If you privilege fun and diversion– and natural wonders, exoticism, music, Carnival ambiance and beach life – Rio de Janeiro (or Salvador da Bahia) are the Brazilian places you are searching.

Best time to visit Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

The high season in Rio is summer (December to March), but this high season is also the most crowded period and has the highest hotel prices. So, off-season (May-October) is also a good option, if you are looking for low hotel prices and don’t mind to face the risk of having some days of low temperatures: Rio’s winter temperatures stay around the 70sº F/20sº C, dipping occasionally below the 60ºF/15ºC (there are some short periods of low temperatures, and beach life isn’t agreeable).

Rainy days can be disturbing in a visit to Rio, but they are very unpredictable. They can happen even in the high season. The solution, when the rain comes unexpectedly, is to have alternatives as shopping or indoor visits or amusement - and Rio has plenty.


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Best Brazilian Tropical Beaches: Bahia
Best time to go

Salvador da Bahia has 50 km of brazilian top resorts with hundreds of natural swimming pools, surrounded by coconut groves: Barra, at the very city, Ondina, Rio Vermelho, Amaralina, Pituba, Armação, Corsário, Jaguaribe, Piatã, Itapoã, Stella Maris, Flamengo, Aleluia…

But Salvador da Bahia, as Rio de Janeiro, is much more than just good beaches. There is always music at the enormous straw sunshades that look over the beaches, especially in the more central beach, the Barra.

Salvador da Bahia is the heart of an amazing culture, blending a strong African culture with a European one. Something that is visible in the every day life: in the musical spirit, in the exoticism of the place, in the odd cuisine of the region.

Bahia (and Salvador) is anyway just a travel option. Near Salvador, or near northeastern hubs as Recife and Fortaleza, there are many other dozens (or hundreds and thousands, to be more literally) of world top beaches deserving your visit.

Best time to travel to Bahia and other Brazilian tropical beaches

What's the best time to go to Salvador da Bahia, Fortaleza, Recife or other resorts near these towns (Praia do Forte, Porto Galinhas, Natal, etc.)? They all have agreeable temperatures all year round. Temperatures rarely dip below 25ºC (77ºF) or rise beyond 32 or 33ºC (90ºF). Winter temperatures are just 3-4ºC degrees below the «summer» temperatures.

The factor you may equate to your travel, is the rain and the ambiance. In Salvador and Recife regions the rainy season begins around the beginning of April, and lasts three months, more or less. At Fortaleza the rain begins a little later (advanced April or May) and lasts also three months.

The rainy season is less popular and festive. In Bahia there is an interruption of the many daily musical and popular events. In this sense, the rainy season is the worse season to go and visit the Brazilian Northeast cost places. Anyhow, those are all year round beach places, and showers rarely last enough to spoil your travel.


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Sao Paulo - Business, travel and fun
Best time to go to Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo is the industrial and business heart of Brazil, but is very close to top beaches and resorts, and is also a place for fun.

Best time to visit Sao Paulo - Brazil

Some of the coastal zones of Sao Paulo state are climatically very similar to Rio’s ones. But due to the plateau and rather interior situation of Sao Paulo city, its weather also has some similitude with much more interior and southern regions. And that means, roughly, that Sao Paulo has many days with agreeable temperatures and good weather, but also that the summer (22nd December - 21st March) may be very sticky and the winter can have very cold days (22nd June - 21st September). That’s why the intermediate months are the best for traveling to Sao Paulo and its surroundings.



Brazilian south travel
Best time to go to Florianopolis...

The South of Brazil has temperate climate, which means that the south Brazilian beaches are not all year round ones. The south has a four season climate, with a cold winter, unsuitable for swimming. But there are very good beaches, some of which excellent in the hotter months: Florianopolis is just a major case.

Best time to visit the south of Brazil

The south of Brazil has a more conventional four-season climate, with a cold winter (winter temperatures and evenings can be low and uncomfortable: 5°C-8°C/41ºF-47ºF) and a hot summer. Sweaters and light winter coats are needed, in winter.

The best time to visit those regions – if you want to profit from nearby beaches - is undoubtedly summer (December-March) and the months closer to summer, unless you want to visit other highlights as Iguassu Falls or Blumenau Oktoberfest, or just travelling in a rather European alike region.


Pantanal - Bird watching and travel
Best time to go to Pantanal

Pantanal is quite the inverse of the Amazon in its green canopy. Pantanal is more like an African savannah, in the pick of the summer, or – most of the year - an infinite water lake, with few signs of vegetable life. And nevertheless, it shares some common features with the Amazon, namely its wildness and huge bird and animal life. There is no other American place as the Pantanal for watching birds and animal life.

Best time to visit the Pantanal

The rainy season lasts from December to March. The intermediary seasons are April-June and October-November. In the rainy season, rain is obviously intense, the temperature is high, and Pantanal gets flooded. This is a bad period to visit Pantanal, especially January and February. It’s much better to visit the Pantanal in the dry season, or in the intermediary ones.

Iguassu Falls – the world’s largest waterfalls
Best time to go to Iguassu


The Niagara Falls, compared to the Iguassu Falls are a «leaky faucet», to use the words that Eleanor Roosevelt allegedly used, when facing the place. The Brazilian Iguassu Falls are, undoubtedly, one of the greatest natural phenomena of our planet.

Best time to visit Brazil: Iguassu Falls

March to November is frequently considered the best time to visit the Iguassu Falls. But, in reality, there isn’t a best time. It depends on what you value most.

The high season is in January and February, when most Brazilians and Argentineans are in holidays. For those who want to experience the splendour and the impressiveness, that’s a good period to visit the Iguassu Falls. But… there are some downsides. The sky is bluer (it’s the peak of the summer) and the volume of the waters is high, but the humidity and the heat are also at their highest levels (as are the hotels prices and their occupation). And this is also a crowded period, you might wish to avoid in your visit to the Iguassu Falls.

If you want to avoid crowded periods, avoid the Easter time also. There is a strong Brazilian and Argentinean tradition to visit the Iguassu Falls in Easter. Vast throngs of tourists invade the place in Easter, crushing the quietness of most of the year. If you want to bet on low hotel prices, this is not a good season for your travel, either.

May and July are rainy months and the volume of the waters is at its maximum. The rain is rarely a problem, except for those who are looking for a quick day visit. In that case, the rain may strike the unfortunates.

If you want to enjoy an agreeable temperature, lower prices, less people and a very low probability of a troubling rainy day, September and October are great months for your travel to the Iguassu Falls. But it all depends of your style and travel preferences – and possibilities

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Hotel prices and best time to visit Brazil

Brazilian hotels – and the daily cost of life – are very affordable for European or North-American patterns. And the availability is not a problem either.

But you should have into account some exceptions in your travel to Brazil:

- the availability and prices of brazilian hotels are higher in Brazilian summer time (22nd December - 21st March), during which most south-americans have their holidays.

- in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador da Bahia hotels are scarce and more expensive in the Carnival period.

- in Rio de Janeiro, the prices of the hotels are also higher in the Christma’s and New Eve’s (New’s Eve’s Rio is a major event in the brazilian tradition).

- January, February and Eastern aren’t for good for getting cheap hotel prices in Iguassu Falls: these are crowded periods, with lots of Argentineans and Brazilians visiting the place.

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