Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in Brazil

Brazil's official national heat record: **44.8 °C (112.6 °F)** at **Bauru, São Paulo**, on **November 11, 2020** (INMET – National Institute of Meteorology).

Context

• Previous record: 44.7 °C at Bom Jesus, Piauí (2005).
• Bauru is inland (~500 km from coast), elevation 550 m; late-spring heatwave under high pressure.
• Amazon and Pantanal regions have high heat indices (humidity) but lower absolute temperatures.

Climate Change

Extreme heat events increasing in frequency/intensity per IPCC; Brazil's 2023–24 summer saw multiple 40°C+ days across Centro-Oeste and Nordeste.