77° Fahrenheit

72 to 79 °F

The warmest months in the Amazon rainforest are March, July, September and November, with an average temperature of 29ºC. The coldest month in the UK is February, with an average temperature of 2ºC. The coldest month in the Amazon rainforest is August, with an average temperature of 26ºC.

In general, Brazil is a year-round destination with temperatures rarely dip below 20°C (68°F), apart from in the mountains and southern regions. The climate varies from hot and dry in the arid interior to humid and sticky in the tropical rainforests of the Amazon jungle.

Sickness. Tourists are especially prone to sickness while traveling in the Amazon rainforest. According to Goparoo Travel Guide, the biggest threat comes from mosquitoes carrying malaria and yellow fever. These are both serious illnesses, so get the appropriate vaccinations before you go to the Amazon.

Language Information Brazil, which hosts 60% of the Amazon Rainforest, speaks Portuguese, while other parts speak Spanish. In many Amazon locales, indigenous Amazonia languages are also spoken.

The Amazon is burning in 2020 again.

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Looking ahead to the remainder of 2021, Finer says, we can expect to see patterns similar to last year in the Brazilian Amazon, with fires burning in recently deforested areas early in the season (June through August) and a possible shift to fires raging in standing forests as the dry season intensifies.

Amazon rainforest continues to burn in 2020, despite promises to save it. A soldier puts out fires in the forest near Novo Progresso, Brazil, in September 2019.

One year ago, Brazilian officials discovered a fire burning in the forest around the town of Novo Progresso. This year, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro promised to control the burning. Usually, local farmers set fires to clear land.

Both August and September of 2020 have matched or surpassed last year’s single-month high. “We have had two months with a lot of fire. The entire Amazon, which spans nine countries, currently has 28,892 active fires, according to a fire monitoring tool funded in part by the US space agency, Nasa.

According to data from NASA’s Amazon dashboard, fires charred 43,000 square kilometers (17,000 square miles) of the Pantanal region in 2020—about 28 percent of the Pantanal.

What caused this? Forest fires do happen in the Amazon during the dry season between July and October. They can be caused by naturally occurring events, like lightning strikes, but this year most are thought to have been started by farmers and loggers clearing land for crops or grazing.

“People arrived in the Amazon at least 10,000 years ago, and they started to use the species that were there. And more than 8,000 years ago, they selected some individuals with specific phenotypes that are useful for humans,” says Carolina Levis, a scholar at Wageningen University who helped lead the study.

If the Amazon rainforest is destroyed, rainfall will decrease around the forest region. This would cause a ripple effect, and prompt an additional shift in climate change, which would result in more droughts, longer dry spells, and massive amounts of flooding.