Climate Natal Air Force Base 2020-2024

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

Calculated from historical METAR data of Natal Air Force Base (SBNT) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	75.9	73	76	73	70	81
February	76.9	73	75	80	76	79
March	77.3	78	77	75	77	83
April	79.5		79	80	83	87
May	75.8		79	65	80	74
June	78.0		69	78	89	81
July	74.5		85	70	75	79
August	78.3		65	77	69	87
September	74.0		65	77	73	80
October	76.4		76	77	80	72
November	74.0		72	79	62	68
December	71.2		67	76	51	71
Average	75.9	74.5	73.7	75.5	73.6	78.0

78th 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	99.2	98	100	100	100	99
February	98.5	98	99	99	100	99
March	97.5	99	98	99	98	98
April	98.0		99	98	100	99
May	96.2		99	95	97	92
June	94.7		89	93	100	95
July	93.3		97	91	98	93
August	97.2		93	95	96	99
September	98.5		97	99	99	100
October	99.3		100	100	99	99
November	99.2		97	100	99	98
December	99.5		99	100	100	100
Average	97.7	98.3	97.1	97.3	98.6	97.7

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	31
February	31.0	32	31	31	31	31
March	31.0	32	30	31	31	31
April	30.7		30	31	31	31
May	30.3		31	30	30	30
June	29.7		30	30	30	29
July	29.0		29	30	30	29
August	29.4		29	30	29	29
September	29.8		30	31	30	29
October	30.4		31	30	31	30
November	30.6		31	30	31	31
December	30.8		31	30	31	30
Average	30.4	31.6	30.0	30.3	30.4	30.1

34th 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	24.2	25	23	25	25	25
February	23.9	25	24	25	25	25
March	23.1	25	23	24	24	24
April	22.5		23	24	24	24
May	21.7		24	23	23	24
June	21.1		23	23	22	23
July	19.2		22	23	20	22
August	21.2		22	23	22	22
September	21.8		22	23	23	22
October	23.2		24	23	24	24
November	24.1		24	23	26	24
December	24.6		25	24	26	24
Average	22.8	25.1	23.2	23.5	23.6	23.5

96th 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	2.0	2	2	2	2	4
February	3.4	5	2	2	1	5
March	6.1	4	6	7	6	6
April	5.3		3	4	2	7
May	6.6		3	9	5	14
June	8.1		10	9	2	7
July	10.6		6	15	6	9
August	4.3		10	7	6	1
September	3.1		4	2	3	3
October	1.8		1	2	1	4
November	1.1		2	0	1	3
December	1.2		3	0	0	2
Average	4.4	3.8	4.3	5.0	2.8	4.9

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	11.3	9	11	10	12	10
February	10.5	9	12	11	11	10
March	9.4	9	10	10	11	8
April	9.8		10	10	11	9
May	10.2		10	9	11	9
June	11.0		11	9	12	11
July	12.2		12	12	12	12
August	13.6		12	13	14	14
September	14.1		13	13	14	14
October	13.4		13	13	13	12
November	12.3		12	10	12	13
December	12.2		11	11	12	13
Average	11.4	9.0	11.2	10.9	12.0	11.4

34th 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	121°	114°	110°	112°	110°
February	145°	120°	106°	109°	117°
March	140°	128°	121°	118°	105°
April		127°	126°	126°	124°
May		133°	136°	141°	133°
June		146°	142°	143°	143°
July		145°	147°	144°	144°
August		136°	144°	145°	139°
September		146°	132°	131°	131°
October		133°	127°	118°	116°
November		123°	107°	108°	115°
December		135°	112°	107°	116°

Prevailing wind direction

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