Climate averages 1991–2020
Quilicura weather
in January.
A hot, very dry month: the warmest and the driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Quilicura: daytime highs average 28.5°C and nights cool to about 16.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 7.7 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes January a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 05 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Santiago (12 km away). In January its highs average 28.0°C, 0.5°C cooler than Quilicura, with 2.7 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Quilicura ranks 11th of 40 for the warmest January highs and joint 25th of 40 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 40 cities is 25.5°C; Quilicura is 3.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 7.7 mm to 8.9 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Quilicura climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 28.5°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 7.7 | 2.0 | 14.114 h |
| February | 28.1°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 8.9 | 1.8 | 13.313 h |
| March | 26.5°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 14 | 1.9 | 12.312 h |
| April | 22.4°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 38 | 3.8 | 11.311 h |
| May | 18.7°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 81 | 7.1 | 10.410 h |
| June | 15.5°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 116 | 8.0 | 10.010 h |
| July | 14.7°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 96 | 8.3 | 10.210 h |
| August | 16.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 99 | 9.2 | 10.911 h |
| September | 18.0°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 77 | 10.1 | 11.912 h |
| October | 20.5°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 59 | 8.5 | 12.913 h |
| November | 23.9°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 28 | 4.7 | 13.814 h |
| December | 26.7°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 13 | 2.2 | 14.314 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
January in nearby cities
- Santiago in JanuaryChile · 12 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 16.6°C · 2.7 mm rain
- Maipú in JanuaryChile · 17 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 16.0°C · 2.7 mm rain
- Lampa in JanuaryChile · 18 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 17.1°C · 3.7 mm rain
- Colina in JanuaryChile · 19 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 18.3°C · 7.7 mm rain
- Peñalolén in JanuaryChile · 20 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 15.9°C · 15 mm rain
- San Bernardo in JanuaryChile · 25 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 16.1°C · 2.7 mm rain
- Puente Alto in JanuaryChile · 30 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 15.8°C · 15 mm rain
- Peñaflor in JanuaryChile · 30 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 15.7°C · 2.6 mm rain
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 Quilicura) is explained once on the Quilicura year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Colina lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.