Recife
City in Brazil: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
Recife is a city in Brazil, in Pernambuco. About 1.7 million people live in the city proper, making it the 9th largest city of Brazil in our atlas.
It lies at 8.05° S, 34.88° W, about 8 m (26 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Recife time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Recife. Green dots: other major cities of Brazil. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Recife has a tropical savanna (dry summer) climate (Köppen As). The warmest month is usually Feb, with average highs near 30°C (87°F); the coolest nights come in Aug at about 22°C (71°F). Around 1,414 mm (56 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jun.
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
- Maceió · 202 km
- Fortaleza · 627 km
- Salvador · 675 km
- Belo Horizonte · 1,651 km
- Belém · 1,667 km
- Brasília · 1,671 km
- Goiânia · 1,847 km
- Rio de Janeiro · 1,884 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3390760 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q22061296 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Estádio Ilha do Retiro - 2: Andre Oliveira, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- DIÁRIO DE PERNAMBUCO: Noelia Brito, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Monumento Tortura Nunca Mais - Recife: marcusrg, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Recife-PalacioGoverno1: Raul from Recife, Brasil, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- MEP-Recife: Lais Castro, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
