Climate averages 1991–2020
Punta Arenas weather
in October.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Punta Arenas: daytime highs average 8.6°C and nights cool to about 3.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 44 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Río Gallegos (205 km away). In October its highs average 13.6°C, 5.0°C warmer than Punta Arenas, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Punta Arenas ranks 40th of 40 for the warmest October highs and 33rd of 40 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 40 cities is 19.1°C; Punta Arenas is 10.5°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 10.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 69 mm to 78 mm.
The annual picture
October 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, selected | 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
October 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.