Weekly note

Brazil in January

3 of the 4 destinations in Brazil are in season in January: 0 a sweet spot, 2 good, 1 ok.

None of these has January as a sweet spot; the 2 labelled good are the best of the month: Salvador and Rio de Janeiro. Best avoided at 1 of them.

Ranked for January

#PlaceVerdict High Rain Why
1 Salvador goodbusy 29° 3d busier than usual
2 Rio de Janeiro goodbusy 30° 8d holidays: GB: New Year's Day
3 Sao Paulo ok 27° 13d 27C max, 13 rainy days

Not this January

Other months for Brazil

January elsewhere

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about Brazil as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.