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Chile

17 cities in the atlas · 17 airports with scheduled flights

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Photo: Natalia Reyes Escobar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Santiago
Currency: CLP; Chilean Peso
Local time: Chile Summer TimeUTC-03:00; 2 more
Calling code: +56
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and L

Facts

Chile in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Santiago
Currency: Chilean Peso CLPToday's indicative rate: CLP 100 ≈ USD 0.101Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: SpanishSpoken: Spanish
Time zones: Easter Island Summer TimeUTC-05:00UTC-03:00Chile Summer TimeUTC-03:00
Calling code: +56
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and L220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 130fire131ambulance132fire133police134policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 19,859,921 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 756,950 km²
Internet domain: .cl
Land borders: Argentina Bolivia Peru

When to go

Climate across Chile

In October to May, more than half of the 11 cities with figures in Chile have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Santiago	30°	29°	27°	23°	19°	15°	14°	16°	19°	22°	26°	28°
Concepción	25°	25°	22°	19°	15°	13°	12°	12°	14°	16°	19°	22°
Antofagasta	23°	23°	22°	21°	19°	18°	17°	17°	17°	18°	19°	21°
Punta Arenas	13°	13°	11°	9°	6°	4°	4°	5°	7°	9°	10°	12°
Arica	24°	24°	24°	24°	23°	22°	22°	22°	23°	23°	23°	24°
Puerto Montt	19°	20°	18°	15°	12°	10°	9°	10°	12°	14°	16°	18°
Temuco	25°	25°	23°	18°	14°	11°	10°	12°	14°	16°	18°	22°
Iquique	25°	26°	25°	23°	21°	20°	19°	20°	21°	22°	23°	24°
Valdivia	24°	24°	21°	17°	13°	10°	10°	10°	12°	14°	17°	20°
Viña del Mar	28°	27°	26°	22°	19°	16°	15°	16°	18°	21°	24°	26°
Cities good for going, of 11	10	10	10	8	6	3	2	2	5	6	8	10

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Chile is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Chile

All 17 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Smaller places with an airport · 6

Airports

Airports in Chile

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 9

Photographs

Chile in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Santiago
Photo: Omnespsx ( D • ES ) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Concepción
Photo: order_242 from Chile · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Chile

Tell us where in Chile, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.