Climate averages 1991–2020
Punta Arenas weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Punta Arenas: daytime highs average 8.8°C and nights cool to about 4.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 84 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 27 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Río Gallegos (205 km away). In April its highs average 12.1°C, 3.4°C warmer than Punta Arenas, with 29 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Punta Arenas ranks 40th of 40 for the warmest April highs and 33rd of 40 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 40 cities is 20.5°C; Punta Arenas is 11.7°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 2.7°C to 6.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 84 mm to 60 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Punta Arenas climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12.3°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 89 | 20.0 | 16.316 h |
| February | 12.4°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 69 | 15.6 | 14.615 h |
| March | 11.1°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 83 | 17.4 | 12.613 h |
| April, selected | 8.8°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 84 | 15.4 | 10.510 h |
| May | 6.1°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 60 | 13.2 | 8.69 h |
| June | 3.8°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 56 | 12.4 | 7.68 h |
| July | 3.6°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 56 | 12.8 | 8.18 h |
| August | 4.7°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 62 | 13.4 | 9.610 h |
| September | 6.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 54 | 12.2 | 11.612 h |
| October | 8.6°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 69 | 15.5 | 13.714 h |
| November | 10.2°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 78 | 18.3 | 15.716 h |
| December | 11.4°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 88 | 20.7 | 16.817 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
April in nearby cities
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 Punta Arenas) is explained once on the Punta Arenas year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.