Climate averages 1991–2020
Coquimbo weather
in August.
A mild, fairly dry month: the 10th warmest and the joint 9th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a mild month in Coquimbo: daytime highs average 18.2°C and nights cool to about 10.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 15 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 03 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is La Serena (10 km away). In August its highs average 19.4°C, 1.2°C warmer than Coquimbo, with 15 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Coquimbo ranks 7th of 40 for the warmest August highs and joint 6th of 40 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 40 cities is 15.5°C; Coquimbo is 2.7°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 19.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 15 mm to 5.4 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Coquimbo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24.3°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 13.814 h |
| February | 24.3°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 0.5 | 0.0 | 13.213 h |
| March | 23.4°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 4.5 | 0.5 | 12.312 h |
| April | 21.4°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 3.0 | 0.7 | 11.411 h |
| May | 19.6°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 20 | 2.1 | 10.611 h |
| June | 18.1°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 30 | 2.3 | 10.310 h |
| July | 17.6°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 15 | 1.9 | 10.410 h |
| August, selected | 18.2°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 15 | 1.9 | 11.011 h |
| September | 19.3°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 5.4 | 0.9 | 11.912 h |
| October | 20.7°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 4.7 | 0.6 | 12.813 h |
| November | 22.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 0.6 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| December | 23.1°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 14.014 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
August in nearby cities
- La Serena in AugustChile · 10 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 11.2°C · 15 mm rain
- Ovalle in AugustChile · 73 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 8.6°C · 26 mm rain
- Copiapó in AugustChile · 304 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 11.2°C · 3.0 mm rain
- San Juan, Argentina in AugustArgentina · 321 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 5.0°C · 10 mm rain
- Rawson in AugustArgentina · 323 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 4.3°C · 10 mm rain
- Viña del Mar in AugustChile · 342 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 7.8°C · 53 mm rain
- Valparaíso in AugustChile · 344 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 9.8°C · 57 mm rain
- Quilpué in AugustChile · 344 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 6.8°C · 53 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Coquimbo) is explained once on the Coquimbo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
La Serena lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.