Maria da Fé

Geography

Maria da Fé is located in the dominant mesothermic climates in the southeast and south of Brazil, associated with its altitude. The city features a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb) as well as Campos do Jordão. The average temperature is 17 °C (maximum average 23.3 °C and minimum average of 10.1 °C), with warm summers but not as hot as places in valleys in the interior of the country and the winters are colds to Brazil and Minas Gerais. The total precipitation is 1738 mm. It is the only city in the state where the average temperature rise trend per decade reaches 1 °C. Being in the Mantiqueira Mountains, frost is a common event in normal winter. It can go from 10 occasions in several years. The city is one of the coldest of Minas Gerais and Brazil. According to data from the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET), referring to the period between 1976 and 2016, the lowest temperature recorded in Maria da Fé was -8.4 °C on July 21, 1981, and the highest reached 34,4 °C on January 19, 2015. The largest accumulated rainfall in 24 hours reached 173 mm (mm) on January 3, 2000. Other large accumulations equal or greater than 100 mm were 125 mm on October 14, 1995, 103.4 mm on November 26, 2006, and 100.2 mm on February 25, 1995. The lowest relative humidity index reached 15% in the afternoon of August 20, 2005. In recent records there were years like 2013 where there were 23 nights with frost but the following year only 3 days, but varies considerably from year to year going from a few days to more than a dozen. The average of the first frost is on May 18 and the last on August 14, and may occur from early April until the end of September.