Weather in Recife in August

Shoulder season. August is shoulder season in Recife — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. You should expect rain on 22 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

August ranks 5 of 12 in Recife: past the worst of the year but short of October, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 22 of the month's 31 days, 2 of them heavy. At that frequency a wet-weather backup is not a contingency, it is the itinerary — book the indoor things first and treat the clear days as the bonus. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average August reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 4.8 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 30.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 21 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 51 mm — roughly 44% of the month's rain in one day.

August is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest August on record still delivered 214 mm against 46 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 115 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 14.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 81%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 27.1 °C in July, 27.3 here, 28.3 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: September brings 9 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in August

Recife sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.8 hours in August, against a range of just 0.9 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 26.4 °C in August — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 28.8 °C in April and bottoms out at 26.4 °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

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself. August is the value pick for Recife: it scores within 10 points of October without carrying October's prices.

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

August in Recife versus nearby

If Recife is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Maceió is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Fortaleza is a better bet in August — 2.2 °C warmer, 20 days less rain.

So: August works, with October the better month by 10 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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