Climate Vale do Aço Regional Airport 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Vale do Aço Regional Airport (SBIP) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	81.1	78	73	83	96	70
February	81.2	78	95	75	84	86
March	88.7	88	95	94	90	64
April	87.2		89	93	91	91
May	85.9		85	93	90	96
June	84.7		85	87	86	79
July	87.4		83	92	93
August	89.5		79	96	96
September	87.2		81	89	93
October	83.6		87	88	76
November	77.7		93	77	71
December	82.9		93	74	86
Average	83.4	81.1	86.1	86.6	86.5	75.6

35th best VFR conditions of Brazil

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	94.0	94	93	96	98	85
February	93.5	94	100	95	95	93
March	97.2	100	100	99	98	91
April	95.7		94	99	95	100
May	93.7		95	94	96	100
June	92.8		93	90	93	97
July	94.7		91	97	97
August	97.1		94	97	98
September	97.6		97	96	100
October	98.0		99	97	97
November	94.0		99	93	94
December	94.5		99	92	97
Average	94.8	95.8	95.9	95.4	96.2	90.6

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	31.5	31	30	31	28	32
February	30.7	31	31	30	28	31
March	31.7	33	32	32	31	29
April	29.6		29	31	29	28
May	27.8		27	27	29	24
June	27.3		27	27	27	26
July	26.9		27	27	26
August	27.8		28	28	28
September	29.9		30	28	32
October	30.9		32	30	27
November	30.0		34	29	26
December	30.6		33	29	29
Average	29.8	31.6	29.9	29.0	28.1	29.4

53rd highest temperature of Brazil

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	21.7	23	22	21	4	24
February	19.0	22	21	18	2	23
March	19.5	23	21	20	4	23
April	18.7		19	20	5	24
May	14.1		16	6	2	19
June	12.9		13	4	4	20
July	11.7		14	6	6
August	13.9		16	12	3
September	15.9		17	15	5
October	18.5		22	20	4
November	18.3		21	19	4
December	20.4		22	21	11
Average	18.0	22.2	18.3	14.9	4.3	22.7

11th lowest temperature of Brazil

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	9.0	15	13	12	0	11
February	8.2	8	2	12	12	6
March	3.1	3	1	1	3	14
April	2.9		4	1	4	0
May	1.2		1	2	0	0
June	0.7		0	1	1	7
July	1.8		6	0	2
August	1.4		4	0	2
September	1.7		3	3	0
October	4.1		3	4	12
November	9.8		1	15	15
December	8.8		3	22	9
Average	5.4	8.9	3.6	6.0	5.7	9.0

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	5.8	5	5	5	6	7
February	4.9	5	6	4	4	6
March	4.7	4	5	5	4	5
April	4.4		4	4	3	4
May	4.0		4	4	4	4
June	4.1		4	4	4	5
July	4.3		4	5	4
August	5.2		4	6	5
September	6.0		6	5	5
October	6.1		6	6	5
November	5.5		5	5	5
December	5.4		5	5	4
Average	5.1	4.6	4.7	4.7	4.2	5.6

53rd highest wind speed of Brazil

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	025°	023°	022°	010°	045°
February	024°	026°	015°	022°	041°
March	026°	018°	022°	021°	028°
April		015°	037°	033°	026°
May		057°	035°	028°	183°
June		033°	036°	022°	104°
July		023°	014°	047°
August		031°	018°	012°
September		019°	016°	023°
October		020°	022°	022°
November		026°	025°	028°
December		016°	026°	024°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.