Rio de Janeiro in December
good · a good time to go · the wettest month of the year
The year in Rio de Janeiro
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- JanJRio de Janeiro in January: good, busy
- FebFRio de Janeiro in February: good, busy
- MarMRio de Janeiro in March: sweet spot
- AprARio de Janeiro in April: sweet spot
- MayMRio de Janeiro in May: sweet spot
- JunJRio de Janeiro in June: good
- JulJRio de Janeiro in July: sweet spot
- AugARio de Janeiro in August: sweet spot
- SepSRio de Janeiro in September: sweet spot
- OctORio de Janeiro in October: sweet spot
- NovNRio de Janeiro in November: good
- DecDRio de Janeiro in December: good
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 28°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 22°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 33°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 9 · 127 mm |
| Humidity | 82% |
| Sunshine | 10.5 h/day |
| Daylight | 13.5 h/day |
| Days over 35°C | 1 |
| Crowds | 80 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Copacabana, 19 km from the airport (GIG): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in December
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Rio de Janeiro in pictures
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Donatas Dabravolskas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Claudney Neves, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 28°C.
- A packable rain jacket for the 9 or so rainy days.
- Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.
- Humidity averages 82%; breathable fabrics dry faster.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
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. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Brazil: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Rio de Janeiro: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
December elsewhere
In December from
The other months at Rio de Janeiro
- January good
- February good
- March sweet spot
- April sweet spot
- May sweet spot
- June good
- July sweet spot
- August sweet spot
- September sweet spot
- October sweet spot
- November good
- December
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