What is the weather in Brazil?
What is climate of Brazil? Although 90 percent of the country is within the tropical zone, the climate of Brazil varies considerably from the mostly tropical North to temperate zones below the Tropic of Capricorn (2327′ S latitude), which crosses the country at the latitude of the city of So Paulo. Brazil has five climatic regions–equatorial, tropical, semiarid, highland tropical, and subtropical. Temperatures along the equator are high, averaging above 25C / 77F, but not reaching the summer extremes of up to 40C / 104F in the temperate zones. At the country’s other extreme, there are frosts south of the Tropic of Capricorn during the winter (June-August), and in some years there is snow in the mountainous areas, such as Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. Temperatures in the cities of So Paulo, Belo Horizonte, and Braslia are moderate (usually between 15C / 59 and 30C / 86F), despite their relatively low latitude, because of their elevation of approximately 1,000 meters. Rio de Jan
