🇧🇷 Brasil
Río de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, also known simply as Rio, is the capital and largest city of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the second-largest city in Brazil after São Paulo, and the largest by international tourists. It has a population of 6 million in the city proper, and 13 million people in its metropolitan area as of 2025. It is also the sixth-most-populous city in the Americas.
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brasil
- Elevation
- 12 m
- Population
- 6,747,815
- Time zone
- America/Sao_Paulo
- Coordinates
- -22.91, -43.18
Weather in Río de Janeiro month by month
The best months to go: May · Jun · Jul
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 29° | 29° | 30° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 26° | 26° | 27° | 28° |
| low | 23° | 23° | 23° | 21° | 19° | 18° | 18° | 18° | 19° | 21° | 21° | 22° |
| rain | 164 mm | 123 mm | 64 mm | 130 mm | 48 mm | 47 mm | 33 mm | 77 mm | 60 mm | 107 mm | 103 mm | 152 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Río de Janeiro is from other cities in Brasil
- Belo Horizonte341 km✈ 1 h 10 min · 🚗 5 h 41 min
- Guarulhos348 km✈ 1 h 10 min · 🚗 5 h 48 min
- São Paulo360 km✈ 1 h 11 min · 🚗 6 h
- Curitiba678 km✈ 1 h 35 min · 🚗 11 h 18 min
- Florianópolis750 km✈ 1 h 40 min · 🚗 12 h 30 min
- Brasilia936 km✈ 1 h 53 min · 🚗 15 h 36 min
- Goiânia939 km✈ 1 h 54 min · 🚗 15 h 39 min
- Porto Alegre1,126 km✈ 2 h 7 min · 🚗 18 h 46 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.