Ideal weather days in Santiago
The best time to visit Santiago for warm, dry weather is March to April and October to January, with 25 to 29 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Santiago's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in March to April and October to January.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Santiago, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold75
- Too hot19
- Too wet13
- Too windy0
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), Santiago averaged 267 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 most common in December to March (up to 31 a month, 155 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May and July to October (up to 23 a month, 163 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 75 a year, mostly in May to August. Another 19 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in February. A day can fail more than one test.
Santiago weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32 °C 89 °F | 0 | 0 | 30 | 27 of 31 |
| February | 32 °C 90 °F | 0 | 0 | 27 | 19 of 28 |
| March | 30 °C 85 °F | 0 | 0 | 28 | 29 of 31 |
| April | 25 °C 77 °F | 0 | 0 | 16 | 28 of 30 |
| May | 20 °C 67 °F | 2 | 0 | 14 | 17 of 31 |
| June | 17 °C 62 °F | 4 | 0 | 8 | 11 of 30 |
| July | 19 °C 65 °F | 1 | 0 | 14 | 18 of 31 |
| August | 19 °C 65 °F | 3 | 0 | 7 | 16 of 31 |
| September | 20 °C 67 °F | 2 | 0 | 10 | 20 of 30 |
| October | 25 °C 77 °F | 2 | 0 | 18 | 25 of 31 |
| November | 27 °C 80 °F | 1 | 0 | 20 | 28 of 30 |
| December | 30 °C 86 °F | 0 | 0 | 28 | 28 of 31 |
| Year | 14 | 0 | 220 | 267 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 267 warm, dry days
- 2024 249 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Santiago for good weather?
The best time to visit Santiago for warm, dry weather is March to April and October to January, with 25 to 29 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December to March (up to 31 a month, 155 a year). Counted from measured days at Quinta Normal station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Santiago?
On average 14 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was June (4 rain days), the driest January (0).
How many sunny days does Santiago get a year?
About 220 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 January (30).
How warm does Santiago get?
The median daily high ranged from 17 °C (62 °F) in June to 32 °C (90 °F) in February.
Nearby
- Mendoza180 km, Argentina222 days
- Córdoba650 km, Argentina219 days
- Buenos Aires1140 km, Argentina216 days
- Punta Arenas2190 km4 days
- Ushuaia2380 km, Argentina14 days
Where is the best climate in Chile?
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Source: Quinta Normal weather station (85577099999), 2 km from the centre of Santiago, 520 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.