Campinas
City in Brazil: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
Campinas is a city in Brazil, in São Paulo. About 1.0 million people live in the city proper, making it the 15th largest city of Brazil in our atlas.
It lies at 22.91° S, 47.06° W, about 686 m (2,251 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Sao_Paulo time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Campinas. Green dots: other major cities of Brazil. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Campinas has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). The warmest month is usually Oct, with average highs near 29°C (84°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 10°C (51°F). Around 1,312 mm (52 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jan.
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
- Guarulhos · 82 km
- São Paulo · 83 km
- Curitiba · 360 km
- Rio de Janeiro · 397 km
- Belo Horizonte · 460 km
- Goiânia · 727 km
- Brasília · 796 km
- Porto Alegre · 899 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3467865 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q31928127 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Praça Carlos Gomes - Campinas - SP: Fasouzafreitas, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
