Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre
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About
Porto Alegre is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of roughly 1.4 million inhabitants (2022) makes it the 11th-most populous city in the country and the centre of Brazil's fifth-largest metropolitan area, with 4.1 million inhabitants (2022). The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian state.
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The next week in Porto Alegre
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Overcast
19° / 11°
UV Moderate
Sat
Overcast
20° / 10°
UV Moderate
Sun
Rain
16° / 13°
9.5 mm
Mon
Drizzle
16° / 10°
1.5 mm
Tue
Partly cloudy
15° / 7°
UV Moderate
Wed
Partly cloudy
16° / 7°
UV Moderate
Thu
Overcast
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
31° / 2°
Typical high / low
4 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
10.6h
07:01 – 17:40local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Porto Alegre
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Porto Alegre-Salgado Filho International Airport (POA) at 7 km.
Getting around Porto Alegre
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
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