Ideal weather days in Punta Arenas
Warm, dry days are rare in Punta Arenas: even December, the best month, averaged only 2.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Punta Arenas's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Punta Arenas, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold342
- Too windy314
- Too wet40
- Too hot0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Punta Arenas averaged 4 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Chile, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 0. Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 1.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 342 a year, mostly all year round. Another 314 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly all year round. A day can fail more than one test.
Punta Arenas weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17 °C 62 °F | 6 | 28 | 2 | 1 of 31 |
| February | 15 °C 59 °F | 3 | 25 | 1 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 13 °C 55 °F | 7 | 28 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 10 °C 49 °F | 3 | 27 | 5 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 7 °C 45 °F | 5 | 25 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| June | 5 °C 40 °F | 3 | 24 | 5 | 0 of 30 |
| July | 5 °C 40 °F | 4 | 26 | 5 | 0 of 31 |
| August | 6 °C 43 °F | 3 | 27 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| September | 7 °C 45 °F | 5 | 26 | 2 | 0 of 30 |
| October | 12 °C 54 °F | 4 | 29 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| November | 12 °C 54 °F | 6 | 24 | 3 | 1 of 30 |
| December | 15 °C 58 °F | 3 | 27 | 3 | 2 of 31 |
| Year | 52 | 315 | 34 | 4 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 2 warm, dry days
- 2024 5 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Punta Arenas for good weather?
Warm, dry days are rare in Punta Arenas: even December, the best month, averaged only 2. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 0. Counted from measured days at Carlos Ibanez Del Campo International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Punta Arenas?
On average 52 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was March (7 rain days), the driest December (3).
How many sunny days does Punta Arenas get a year?
About 34 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in April (5).
How warm does Punta Arenas get?
The median daily high ranged from 5 °C (40 °F) in June to 17 °C (62 °F) in January.
Nearby
- Ushuaia250 km, Argentina14 days
- Santiago2190 km267 days
- Mendoza2260 km, Argentina222 days
- Buenos Aires2300 km, Argentina216 days
Where is the best climate in Chile?
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Source: Carlos Ibanez Del Campo International weather station (85934099999), 18 km from the centre of Punta Arenas, 42 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 85% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.