Climate averages 1991–2020

Punta Arenas weather
in March.

A cool, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 11.1°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 6.2°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 83 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a cool month in Punta Arenas: daytime highs average 11.1°C and nights cool to about 6.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 33 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Río Gallegos (205 km away). In March its highs average 15.7°C, 4.6°C warmer than Punta Arenas, with 37 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Punta Arenas ranks 40th of 40 for the warmest March highs and 39th of 40 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 40 cities is 23.9°C; Punta Arenas is 12.7°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 2.3°C to 8.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 83 mm to 84 mm.

The annual picture

March 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, selected	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

March 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.