Climate averages 1991–2020

Punta Arenas weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 12.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 7.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 89 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 16 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Punta Arenas: daytime highs average 12.3°C and nights cool to about 7.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 89 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 19 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Río Gallegos (205 km away). In January its highs average 18.3°C, 5.9°C warmer than Punta Arenas, with 42 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Punta Arenas ranks 40th of 40 for the warmest January highs and 39th of 40 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 40 cities is 25.5°C; Punta Arenas is 13.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 12.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 89 mm to 69 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages 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

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Punta Arenas, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	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	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Punta Arenas

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 limits

How 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.