Macaíba
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Municipality
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Country | ![]() |
Region | Nordeste |
State | Rio Grande do Norte |
Mesoregion | Leste Potiguar |
Population
(2020 [1])
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• Total | 81,821 |
Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
Macaíba is a municipality in the stateofRio Grande do Norte in the Northeast regionofBrazil.[2][3][4][5]
Macaíba has a rather dry tropical savanna climate (Köppen As) with like most of the Nordeste coast a strong dry season from September to January. Although the area is substantially drier than Natal, in accordance with its location in the transition to the agreste further west, the climate is hot year round and humidity is generally high particularly in the rainy season.
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Record high °C (°F) | 35.3 (95.5) |
34.9 (94.8) |
35.5 (95.9) |
35.0 (95.0) |
33.7 (92.7) |
32.9 (91.2) |
33.0 (91.4) |
33.7 (92.7) |
34.3 (93.7) |
33.8 (92.8) |
34.3 (93.7) |
34.2 (93.6) |
35.5 (95.9) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.6 (88.9) |
31.7 (89.1) |
31.4 (88.5) |
31.0 (87.8) |
30.5 (86.9) |
29.7 (85.5) |
29.2 (84.6) |
29.6 (85.3) |
30.2 (86.4) |
30.8 (87.4) |
31.0 (87.8) |
31.2 (88.2) |
30.7 (87.3) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.7 (80.1) |
26.9 (80.4) |
26.7 (80.1) |
26.1 (79.0) |
25.4 (77.7) |
24.3 (75.7) |
23.7 (74.7) |
23.9 (75.0) |
24.6 (76.3) |
25.3 (77.5) |
26.0 (78.8) |
26.4 (79.5) |
25.5 (77.9) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22.4 (72.3) |
22.5 (72.5) |
22.5 (72.5) |
22.2 (72.0) |
21.7 (71.1) |
21.1 (70.0) |
20.4 (68.7) |
20.2 (68.4) |
20.7 (69.3) |
21.3 (70.3) |
21.5 (70.7) |
21.9 (71.4) |
21.5 (70.7) |
Record low °C (°F) | 15.8 (60.4) |
17.8 (64.0) |
18.6 (65.5) |
17.0 (62.6) |
17.0 (62.6) |
18.6 (65.5) |
15.7 (60.3) |
15.0 (59.0) |
14.6 (58.3) |
15.4 (59.7) |
15.8 (60.4) |
14.9 (58.8) |
14.6 (58.3) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 48.7 (1.92) |
88.2 (3.47) |
150.5 (5.93) |
176.4 (6.94) |
160.7 (6.33) |
158.0 (6.22) |
117.3 (4.62) |
67.3 (2.65) |
28.1 (1.11) |
12.7 (0.50) |
16.0 (0.63) |
24.1 (0.95) |
1,048 (41.27) |
Average relative humidity (%) | 69.2 | 70.2 | 74.0 | 78.0 | 79.0 | 81.4 | 79.6 | 76.3 | 72.2 | 67.8 | 67.3 | 68.4 | 73.6 |
Source 1: Universidade Federal de Campina Grande[6] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: INMET[7] |
5°51′28″S 35°21′14″W / 5.85778°S 35.3539°W / -5.85778; -35.3539
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