Climate averages 1991–2020
Peñalolén weather
in March.
A warm, fairly dry month: the joint 3rd warmest and the joint 2nd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Peñalolén: daytime highs average 24.9°C and nights cool to about 14.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 15 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 19 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Santiago (11 km away). In March its highs average 26.1°C, 1.2°C warmer than Peñalolén, with 8.6 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Peñalolén ranks 17th of 40 for the warmest March highs and joint 25th of 40 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 40 cities is 23.9°C; Peñalolén is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 3.9°C to 21.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 15 mm to 39 mm.
The annual picture
March 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
Peñalolén climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.8°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 15 | 3.9 | 14.114 h |
| February | 26.3°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 14 | 4.1 | 13.313 h |
| March, selected | 24.9°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 15 | 2.8 | 12.312 h |
| April | 21.0°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 39 | 4.6 | 11.311 h |
| May | 17.2°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 79 | 7.2 | 10.410 h |
| June | 13.7°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 129 | 8.6 | 10.010 h |
| July | 12.8°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 97 | 8.1 | 10.210 h |
| August | 14.2°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 90 | 7.7 | 10.911 h |
| September | 16.3°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 72 | 9.0 | 11.912 h |
| October | 18.9°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 62 | 11.0 | 12.913 h |
| November | 22.1°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 45 | 10.3 | 13.814 h |
| December | 24.9°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 25 | 6.7 | 14.314 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
March in nearby cities
- Santiago in MarchChile · 11 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 14.7°C · 8.6 mm rain
- Puente Alto in MarchChile · 16 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 13.6°C · 15 mm rain
- Quilicura in MarchChile · 20 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 15.4°C · 14 mm rain
- San Bernardo in MarchChile · 21 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 14.0°C · 8.6 mm rain
- Maipú in MarchChile · 22 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 14.5°C · 8.6 mm rain
- Colina in MarchChile · 32 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 16.9°C · 14 mm rain
- Peñaflor in MarchChile · 35 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 14.1°C · 10 mm rain
- Lampa in MarchChile · 38 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 15.8°C · 11 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 Peñalolén) is explained once on the Peñalolén year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Puente Alto lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.