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What the averages say
No month in Punta Arenas averages a high of 18°C or more; the warmest, February, averages 13°C.
- Cold months (a mean high under 10°C): April to October.
- The warmest month is February (13°C) and the coolest July (4°C). The wettest is April (60 mm) and the driest September (35 mm); about 577 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
- MarCool
- AprCold
- MayCold
- JunCold
- JulCold
- AugCold
- SeptCold
- OctCold
- NovCool
- DecCool
Month by month
Every month in Punta Arenas
| Month | High | Low | Rain | Humidity | Cloud | Sunlight (kWh/m²/day) | High in Dubai | What it is like |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13°C | 7°C | 57 mm | 76% | 84% | 5 | 23°C | Cool |
| February | 13°C | 7°C | 45 mm | 78% | 80% | 4.1 | 24°C | Cool |
| March | 11°C | 6°C | 58 mm | 81% | 81% | 2.7 | 27°C | Cool |
| April | 9°C | 5°C | 60 mm | 84% | 78% | 1.5 | 31°C | Cold |
| May | 6°C | 3°C | 52 mm | 88% | 75% | 0.8 | 35°C | Cold |
| June | 4°C | 2°C | 49 mm | 89% | 74% | 0.5 | 37°C | Cold |
| July | 4°C | 1°C | 45 mm | 89% | 75% | 0.6 | 39°C | Cold |
| August | 5°C | 1°C | 44 mm | 86% | 76% | 1.2 | 39°C | Cold |
| September | 7°C | 2°C | 35 mm | 83% | 77% | 2.4 | 37°C | Cold |
| October | 9°C | 4°C | 38 mm | 78% | 79% | 3.8 | 34°C | Cold |
| November | 10°C | 5°C | 43 mm | 76% | 83% | 4.8 | 29°C | Cool |
| December | 12°C | 6°C | 51 mm | 76% | 83% | 5.4 | 25°C | Cool |
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.
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