Climate averages 1991–2020

Punta Arenas weather
in July.

A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 3.6°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 0.1°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 56 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 8 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a cold month in Punta Arenas: daytime highs average 3.6°C and nights cool to about 0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 56 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 03 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Río Gallegos (205 km away). In July its highs average 4.6°C, 1.1°C warmer than Punta Arenas, with 20 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Punta Arenas ranks 40th of 40 for the warmest July highs and 10th of 40 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 40 cities is 14.5°C; Punta Arenas is 10.9°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 4.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 56 mm to 62 mm.

The annual picture

July 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	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, selected	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

July 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.