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What the averages say
No month in El Calafate averages a high of 18°C or more; the warmest, February, averages 10°C.
- Cold months (a mean high under 10°C): March to December.
- The warmest month is February (10°C) and the coolest July (-1°C). The wettest is March (75 mm) and the driest September (51 mm); about 772 mm of rain falls in a year.
How these sentences are worded
Each sentence is written from the figures by fixed rules, and says no more than they do. Mild to warm: a mean daily high from 18°C up to 32°C. Hot: 32°C or more. Cool: 10°C up to 18°C. Cold: under 10°C. Dry: under 50 mm of rain in the month; wet: 150 mm or more. Humid: a high of 25°C or more with relative humidity of 70% or more. A month is described as good for going when it is mild to warm and not wet.
The year at a glance
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
- JanCool
- FebCool
- MarCold
- AprCold
- MayCold
- JunCold
- JulCold
- AugCold
- SeptCold
- OctCold
- NovCold
- DecCold
Month by month
Every month in El Calafate
| Month | High | Low | Rain | Humidity | Cloud | Sunlight (kWh/m²/day) | High in Dubai | What it is like |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10°C | 2°C | 71 mm | 78% | 77% | 5.6 | 23°C | Cool |
| February | 10°C | 2°C | 62 mm | 79% | 74% | 4.8 | 24°C | Cool |
| March | 8°C | 1°C | 75 mm | 82% | 75% | 3.3 | 27°C | Cold |
| April | 5°C | -1°C | 71 mm | 86% | 74% | 1.9 | 31°C | Cold |
| May | 2°C | -4°C | 71 mm | 91% | 71% | 1.1 | 35°C | Cold |
| June | -1°C | -6°C | 68 mm | 93% | 72% | 0.8 | 37°C | Cold |
| July | -1°C | -7°C | 61 mm | 93% | 71% | 0.9 | 39°C | Cold |
| August | 0°C | -6°C | 63 mm | 91% | 73% | 1.7 | 39°C | Cold |
| September | 2°C | -3°C | 51 mm | 87% | 74% | 2.9 | 37°C | Cold |
| October | 5°C | -2°C | 54 mm | 81% | 77% | 4.1 | 34°C | Cold |
| November | 7°C | 0°C | 57 mm | 78% | 78% | 5.4 | 29°C | Cold |
| December | 9°C | 1°C | 68 mm | 78% | 79% | 5.9 | 25°C | Cold |
The Dubai column is Dubai's mean daily high, for comparison.
Modelled averages for an area about 50 km across, not a weather station's record: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
The model's grid cell sits about 664 m higher than the town, so real temperatures there run a little warmer than these.
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