Warm weather means outdoor social activities - Cariocas typically gather outdoors, in squares, bars, parks and beaches, making them uniquely open to new people and places, may that be for cultural or sporting events, or for the characteristic week-end barbeque part of most Carioca families.

This affinity with the outdoors has nursed a strong awareness of the weather - many Cariocas are able to predict with impressive precision if clouds and rain are approaching.

Lifestyle and cultural practices developed and merged into each other from both connection with nature and heritage - the effect can be seen in the most diverse of ways, in activities ranging from recreational fishing and exercising to music enjoyment and artistic celebrations.