Climate averages 1991–2020

Punta Arenas weather
in May.

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

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

Average high 6.1°C Daytime mean, May

Average low 2.5°C Night-time mean, May

Rainfall 60 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

May is a cold month in Punta Arenas: daytime highs average 6.1°C and nights cool to about 2.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 60 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 37 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Río Gallegos (205 km away). In May its highs average 7.9°C, 1.8°C warmer than Punta Arenas, with 26 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Punta Arenas ranks 40th of 40 for the warmest May highs and 12th of 40 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 40 cities is 17.5°C; Punta Arenas is 11.4°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs fall by 2.3°C to 3.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 60 mm to 56 mm.

The annual picture

May 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, selected	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

May 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.