Belo Horizonte
City in Brazil: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
Belo Horizonte is a city in Brazil, in Minas Gerais. About 2.7 million people live in the city proper, making it the 3rd largest city of Brazil in our atlas.
It lies at 19.92° S, 43.94° W, about 888 m (2,913 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Sao_Paulo time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Belo Horizonte. Green dots: other major cities of Brazil. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Belo Horizonte has a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa). The warmest month is usually Oct, with average highs near 29°C (84°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 11°C (51°F). Around 1,210 mm (48 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Dec.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in BrazilNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Rio de Janeiro · 341 km
- Campinas · 465 km
- Guarulhos · 477 km
- São Paulo · 491 km
- Brasília · 620 km
- Goiânia · 661 km
- Curitiba · 827 km
- Salvador · 958 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3470127 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q31859976 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Mineirão Aérea: Rodrigo Lima/Portal da Copa, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Praça da Liberdade - Belo Horizonte: MICHELLE TAMIETTI, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Novapraçadasavassi: Andrevruas, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pirulito da Praça Sete e prédios ao redor: Adilmargs, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- PracaEstacaoMonumentoBH: Bernardo Gouvêa, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Raul Soares 3: VPCF, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Belo Horizonte - Edifício Niemeyer (2): Sintegrity, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Conjunto JK : EditorFFWD, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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