Rio de Janeiro
City in Brazil: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
Rio de Janeiro is a city in Brazil. About 6.7 million people live in the city proper, making it the 2nd largest city of Brazil in our atlas.
It lies at 22.91° S, 43.18° W, about 12 m (39 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Sao_Paulo time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Rio de Janeiro. Green dots: other major cities of Brazil. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Rio de Janeiro has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). The warmest month is usually Feb, with average highs near 28°C (83°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 18°C (64°F). Around 1,469 mm (58 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
- Belo Horizonte · 340 km
- Guarulhos · 348 km
- São Paulo · 360 km
- Campinas · 397 km
- Curitiba · 683 km
- Brasília · 928 km
- Goiânia · 929 km
- Porto Alegre · 1,141 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3451190 (CC BY 4.0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
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- Aerial view of Copacabana beach: Gustavo Facci from Argentina, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Vista do Morro Dona Marta: Ccarelo, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ipaneman beach Rio de Janeirossa: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Rio Larson 1: Usrotors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Arquivo Nacional do Brasil: Tânia Rêgo, CC BY 3.0 br (Wikimedia Commons)
- Floresta da Tijuca 60: Halley Pacheco de Oliveira, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
