Climate averages 1991–2020
Coquimbo weather
in January.
A warm, very dry month: one of the warmest and the driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Coquimbo: daytime highs average 24.3°C and nights cool to about 17.3°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical January (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 50 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is La Serena (10 km away). In January its highs average 25.8°C, 1.5°C warmer than Coquimbo, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Coquimbo ranks 26th of 40 for the warmest January highs and joint 1st of 40 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 40 cities is 25.5°C; Coquimbo is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs stay level at 24.3°C, and monthly rainfall stays under 1 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- La Serena in JanuaryChile · 10 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 18.0°C · 0.2 mm rain
- Ovalle in JanuaryChile · 73 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 16.9°C · 0.3 mm rain
- Copiapó in JanuaryChile · 304 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 18.2°C · 0.2 mm rain
- San Juan, Argentina in JanuaryArgentina · 321 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 19.2°C · 17 mm rain
- Rawson in JanuaryArgentina · 323 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 18.5°C · 17 mm rain
- Viña del Mar in JanuaryChile · 342 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 15.6°C · 0.3 mm rain
- Valparaíso in JanuaryChile · 344 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 16.2°C · 0.3 mm rain
- Quilpué in JanuaryChile · 344 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 15.0°C · 0.3 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.