🇧🇷 Brasil · capital
Brasilia
Brasília is the capital city of Brazil and the Federal District. Located in the Brazilian Highlands in the country's Central-West region, it was founded by President Juscelino Kubitschek on 21 April 1960, to replace Rio de Janeiro as the national capital. Brasília is Brazil's third-most populous city after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with a population of 2.8 million. Among major Latin American cities, it has the highest GDP per capita.
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brasil
- Elevation
- 1,134 m
- Population
- 2,207,718
- Time zone
- America/Sao_Paulo
- Coordinates
- -15.78, -47.93
Weather in Brasilia month by month
The best months to go: May · Jun · Jul
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 26° | 28° | 30° | 29° | 27° | 26° |
| low | 18° | 18° | 18° | 17° | 15° | 15° | 14° | 16° | 18° | 19° | 18° | 18° |
| rain | 174 mm | 194 mm | 84 mm | 62 mm | 4 mm | 8 mm | 0 mm | 20 mm | 22 mm | 98 mm | 172 mm | 244 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Brasilia is from other cities in Brasil
- Goiânia173 km✈ 58 min · 🚗 2 h 53 min
- Belo Horizonte625 km✈ 1 h 31 min · 🚗 10 h 25 min
- Guarulhos867 km✈ 1 h 48 min · 🚗 14 h 27 min
- São Paulo874 km✈ 1 h 49 min · 🚗 14 h 34 min
- Río de Janeiro936 km✈ 1 h 53 min · 🚗 15 h 36 min
- Salvador de Bahía1,063 km✈ 2 h 3 min · 🚗 17 h 43 min
- Curitiba1,082 km✈ 2 h 4 min · 🚗 18 h 2 min
- Foz de Iguazú1,288 km✈ 2 h 19 min · 🚗 21 h 28 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.