Climate Presidente João Suassuna Airport 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Presidente João Suassuna Airport (SBKG) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	68.7	67	57	62	63	72
February	64.8	61	60	66	55	72
March	67.0	65	64	58	59	71
April	65.7		65	69	55	63
May	64.1		63	59	57	61
June	57.9		56	52	51	60
July	52.7		57	45	56	67
August	58.5		55	58	37	71
September	64.8		60	56	60	74
October	67.1		61	62	61	70
November	66.3		63	59	64	58
December	66.0		62	67	51	64
Average	64.2	64.4	60.1	58.9	55.7	67.5

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	98.0	97	95	99	100	98
February	97.4	96	97	99	99	99
March	97.6	97	95	98	99	98
April	97.0		97	99	100	100
May	95.0		95	92	94	95
June	94.3		89	94	98	97
July	89.9		92	88	97	98
August	93.9		88	94	94	100
September	97.6		94	99	99	98
October	97.5		96	97	99	100
November	96.7		97	94	98	99
December	96.6		96	93	95	100
Average	96.1	96.5	94.2	95.5	97.5	98.5

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	30.9	31	30	31	31	32
February	30.8	31	31	32	31	32
March	30.4	31	30	31	30	31
April	29.3		30	29	30	30
May	28.1		29	28	27	28
June	26.8		27	26	28	27
July	26.2		27	26	28	26
August	27.2		27	26	27	28
September	28.8		29	29	31	29
October	30.5		31	30	32	31
November	31.1		32	30	32	31
December	31.0		31	30	31	31
Average	29.5	31.3	29.3	28.8	29.8	29.6

56th 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	21	22	23	22
February	22.0	23	21	22	22	23
March	21.9	22	22	22	22	22
April	21.7		19	21	23	25
May	21.5		21	21	21	25
June	20.3		20	20	20	23
July	19.6		20	19	20	22
August	19.3		20	18	20	21
September	19.8		20	19	20	21
October	20.6		20	21	21	21
November	21.2		21	21	22	22
December	21.4		20	21	22	22
Average	21.1	22.3	20.3	20.5	21.4	22.4

60th 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	1.1	1	1	3	1	0
February	2.5	3	3	2	1	1
March	2.7	5	5	4	2	1
April	4.2		4	3	2	3
May	5.9		4	11	8	8
June	9.5		16	12	2	6
July	10.6		5	14	3	8
August	6.1		8	8	9	1
September	2.4		5	2	1	2
October	1.3		1	1	0	0
November	0.9		1	2	0	1
December	1.7		2	3	3	2
Average	3.8	2.7	4.4	5.5	2.6	2.2

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	10.4	10	11	10	11	9
February	10.0	9	11	11	11	10
March	8.9	8	9	9	10	7
April	8.6		8	8	10	9
May	8.6		8	8	9	9
June	8.7		8	7	9	10
July	9.3		9	8	10	10
August	10.2		10	9	11	12
September	11.4		11	10	12	12
October	11.8		11	12	12	12
November	11.4		11	10	12	12
December	11.4		10	11	12	13
Average	10.0	9.1	9.8	9.4	10.7	10.3

56th 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	082°	092°	097°	101°	096°
February	102°	103°	094°	091°	098°
March	109°	112°	108°	105°	100°
April		109°	108°	108°	107°
May		119°	116°	124°	113°
June		131°	135°	134°	122°
July		130°	135°	126°	125°
August		115°	134°	132°	124°
September		114°	114°	116°	114°
October		106°	106°	103°	097°
November		096°	089°	089°	095°
December		101°	087°	087°	097°

Prevailing wind direction

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