Climate averages 1991–2020
Punta Arenas weather
in November.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Punta Arenas: daytime highs average 10.2°C and nights cool to about 4.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 78 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 43 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Río Gallegos (205 km away). In November its highs average 16.0°C, 5.8°C warmer than Punta Arenas, with 31 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Punta Arenas ranks 40th of 40 for the warmest November highs and 38th of 40 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 40 cities is 21.6°C; Punta Arenas is 11.4°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 11.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 78 mm to 88 mm.
The annual picture
November 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 | 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, selected | 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
November 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.