Best time to visit Belém

Brazil · Latin America

All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Belém

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Go in Jul–Nov — these months score within a whisker of each other; 31C max, 7 rainy days. Jun is the next best.

Dry season: Aug–Oct, 6 or fewer rainy days a month.

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Things to do in Belém

Bosque Rodrigues Alves Botanical garden in Belém, Brazil
Ver-o-Peso Market Market in Belém, Brazil
Theatro da Paz Theatre in city Belém of Pará, at North Regional in Brazil
Our Lady of Grace Cathedral Church in Belém, Pará
Bibi Costa Mansion Listed good in Belém, Pará, Brazil
Basilica of Our Lady of Nazareth of Exile Church in Belém, Pára
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Natural history museum, arboretum, zoological garden in Pará, Brazil

Tours and tickets in Belém

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.

Month by month

Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	30°	23d	87%	8.9h	avoid	monsoon: 23 rainy days, 311mm
Feb	29°	23d	88%	7.6h	avoid	monsoon: 23 rainy days, 367mm
Mar	29°	27d	89%	7.4h	avoid	monsoon: 27 rainy days, 455mm
Apr	30°	26d	89%	8.1h	avoid	monsoon: 26 rainy days, 446mm
May	30°	21d	87%	9.7h	avoid	monsoon: 21 rainy days, 338mm
Jun	31°	10d	84%	11.0h	ok	31C max, 10 rainy days
Jul	31°	7d	81%	11.2h	sweet spot	31C max, 7 rainy days
Aug	32°	3d	79%	11.5h	sweet spot	32C max, 3 rainy days
Sep	33°	2d	78%	11.7h	sweet spot	33C max, 2 rainy days
Oct	32°	4d	78%	11.7h	sweet spot	32C max, 4 rainy days
Nov	32°	6d	79%	10.9h	sweet spot	32C max, 6 rainy days
Dec	31°	20d*	84%	9.7h	avoid	monsoon: 20 rainy days, 189mm

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at the old centre, by the river, 9 km from the airport (BEL): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.* Rainy days in December are as the weather station at Belem (4 km away) counts them, where it and the model disagree on a wet month (WMO 82191, 2017–2025).

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest in January.

Then and now

Belém's July days now average 31.3°C, 1.8°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 9 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	28.7°	28.5°	28.5°	28.7°	29.1°	29.3°	29.5°	30.6°	31.4°	32.0°	31.8°	30.2°
2017–26	29.7°	29.1°	29.1°	29.5°	30.3°	30.7°	31.3°	32.1°	32.5°	32.5°	32.0°	30.9°
Change	+1.0°	+0.6°	+0.5°	+0.8°	+1.2°	+1.4°	+1.8°	+1.5°	+1.2°	+0.5°	+0.2°	+0.7°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

How far Belém is depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

Before you go

Type C plugs at 127 / 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Brazilian real. UK Foreign Office: avoid all but essential travel to parts. Everything for Brazil: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

Being there

On arrival

Paying — Most businesses take cards, and in big cities cash is used less and less. Locals pay by Pix, which needs a Brazilian bank account or CPF.
UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
Tipping — A 10% service charge is usually on the restaurant bill, so nothing more is needed; taxi drivers do not expect a tip, though people may round up.

Getting around Belém

Apps — Rides: 99, inDrive, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp.

There is one major long distance coach terminal at São Braz. There are many local busses travelling all over the city at often exhilarating and reckless speeds. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Belém, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Help

Emergency — police 190 or 911 · ambulance 192 · fire 193.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Belém in pictures

Belém Brazil panorama 01 — i

Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Belém Praça do Relógio Clock Place 01 — i

Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Architecture around Visconde de Rio Branco Square aka Praça, Belém, Brazil 04 — i

Ridiculopathy, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

A panoramic view of the historic center of Belém do Pará — i

Rafaelbyphoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Belém is like

Belém is a city of 1.3 million people (2023) near the mouth of the Amazon River in northern Brazil. It is the gateway to the Amazon River with a busy port, airport, and bus/coach station. Belém lies approximately 100 km upriver from the Atlantic Ocean, on the Pará River. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: Belém is a lively and friendly city but it can look quite unappealing at first sight. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: Many of the city's highlights can be taken in with a walk along the rivers edge, starting with the docks and continuing to the old fort. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: Huge bus terminal a few kilometers east of the center. Many local buses pass here. More on Wikivoyage
Staying safe: Belém is now a large city, take care when walking after nightfall along Presidente Vargas and the back streets that lead off from it. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Belém, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

Around Belém

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Kind of place

Belém is in Brazil, Latin America. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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