| Official Name: | Municipality of Pato Branco |
| Pato Branco | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Brazil |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Brazil |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Brazil |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | South |
| Subdivision Type2: | State |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Robson Cantu |
| Leader Party: | PSD |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | 14 December 1952 |
| Unit Pref: | metric |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 539.087 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 est. |
| Population Total: | 84,779 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Demonym: | pato-branquense |
| Timezone: | BRT |
| Utc Offset: | -3 |
| Coordinates: | -25.2128°N -50.9778°W |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
| Elevation M: | 765 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 85500-000 to 85513-999 |
| Blank Name: | HDI (2010) |
| Blank Info: | 0.782 – high[3] |
Pato Branco ("White Duck" in English) is a municipality in the state of Paraná in Brazil. The municipality covers 537,8 km2 (206.7 mi2) and has a population of 83,843 (2020 IBGE estimate).[4] Pato Branco started off as a village in 1942 and was given status as a city December 14, 1952. It has two private colleges, Faculdade Mater Dei and Faculdade de Pato Branco, and a campus of the Federal University of Technology - Paraná. The city has experienced a positive economic development throughout the last few years.
Pato Branco is located 760 meters above sea level and has a sub-tropical climate with warm summers and mild winters, morning frost being usual during the winter season. Occasional snowfall. There is no defined period of drought. The coldest month of the year is July with an average temperature of 14.2 °C (57.6 °F). January is the warmest month with an average of 22.5 °C (72.5 °F).
The current mayor (elected for 2021–2024) is Robson Cantu.[5]
The city has a small commercial airport with flights to Curitiba (Juvenal Loureiro Cardoso Airport).
Former Brazil International footballer, Alexandre Pato is from the city. He notably played in Europe for the likes of Chelsea FC & AC Milan. Rogério Ceni, a notable goalkeeper that won the 2002 FIFA World Cup and as of 2022, he own the record of most goals scored by a goalkeeper, with 131 goals also was born in the city.
According to the Köppen climate classification, Pato Branco is classified as oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb), the annual temperature on summer is 28°C, on winter, the temperature reaches to 12°C, rarely below 5°C.