When to go en Amazonie Brésilienne ?

The Amazonian climate is hot and humid throughout the year. The average temperature in the Amazon is 25°C. The average rainfall is between 2,100 and 2,450 mm/year, with areas in the northwest reaching more than 10,000 mm/year. The country is divided into 5 major climatic zones. The North has a hot and humid equatorial climate, with rainfall practically all year round.

When to go to the Amazon? As Brazil is located in the southern hemisphere, the seasons are reversed compared to Europe. During the southern summer, from December to March, it is hot all over Brazil, even very hot in Rio and São Paulo. Generally speaking, Brazil can be visited with pleasure all year round and there is no best time to travel there even if the territory is so vast that it concentrates half a dozen different climates. In the Nordeste states, from December to March, there are frequent but brief showers. The period from June to December is the best time to travel in the Amazon. If you go to Brazil in February-March, you can attend the great Carnival of Rio de Janeiro which takes place every year during the 4 days preceding Ash Wednesday, the day after Shrove Tuesday. If you are there on the last weekend of June you can attend the Boi-Bumbá celebration, during the festival of Parintins, a small island in the Amazon, which attracts several hundred thousand people. It is the second largest popular event in Brazil after Carnival.