Weather in Maceió in October

A good month. October works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 28.9 °C, lows 23.9 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is November, and the month at the other end of the year is April.

Rain on 9 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 28.9 °C days and 23.9 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 5 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 5 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 32.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 22.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 43 mm — roughly 96% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. October rainfall has ranged from 4 mm to 173 mm across the twenty years measured — a 169 mm spread around an average of 45 mm. The average is real but almost no individual October looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 15.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 75%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How October sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 27.6 °C in September, 28.9 here, 30.1 in November. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain has already shifted: 5 days fewer than September had.

Daylight in October

Maceió sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.3 hours in October, against a range of just 1.1 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 26.6 °C in October — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 28.7 °C in April and bottoms out at 26.2 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead. If the dates are flexible, August is the trade worth considering — 11 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

October in Maceió versus nearby

If Maceió is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Recife is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Salvador is the weaker option in October — within a degree on temperature, 3 days more rain.

So: October is the answer for Maceió. If it is booked out or priced out, November is the next best thing at 0 points behind, and April is the month to keep off the shortlist.

Every month in Maceió

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