Guarulhos
City in Brazil: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
Guarulhos is a city in Brazil, in São Paulo. About 1.3 million people live in the city proper, making it the 13th largest city of Brazil in our atlas.
It lies at 23.46° S, 46.53° W, about 774 m (2,539 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Sao_Paulo time zone.
Location
Red dot: Guarulhos. Green dots: other major cities of Brazil. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Guarulhos has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). The warmest month is usually Feb, with average highs near 27°C (81°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 11°C (52°F). Around 1,381 mm (54 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
- São Paulo · 14 km
- Campinas · 82 km
- Rio de Janeiro · 347 km
- Curitiba · 354 km
- Belo Horizonte · 474 km
- Goiânia · 802 km
- Brasília · 865 km
- Porto Alegre · 872 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3461786 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q22064739 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana 6 2019 10: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Panorama do Ginásio Wlamir Marques: Anderson Bueno Pereira, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
