Climate averages 1991–2020

Talca weather
in January.

A hot, very dry month: the warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 14.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 4.2 mm fewer than one day with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Talca: daytime highs average 29.5°C and nights cool to about 14.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 4.2 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes January a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 15 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Curicó (62 km away). In January its highs average 28.7°C, 0.9°C cooler than Talca, with 4.2 mm of rain.

Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Talca ranks 6th of 40 for the warmest January highs and joint 18th of 40 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 40 cities is 25.5°C; Talca is 4.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 28.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 4.2 mm to 7.3 mm.

The annual picture

January 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

Talca climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Talca, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.5°C14.8°C	14.8°C	4.2	0.9	14.214 h
February	28.8°C14.5°C	14.5°C	7.3	0.9	13.413 h
March	26.5°C12.7°C	12.7°C	14	1.5	12.312 h
April	21.3°C9.6°C	9.6°C	45	4.1	11.211 h
May	17.0°C7.4°C	7.4°C	136	8.1	10.310 h
June	14.0°C5.4°C	5.4°C	199	11.5	9.810 h
July	13.5°C4.0°C	4.0°C	137	9.6	10.010 h
August	15.1°C4.7°C	4.7°C	111	8.9	10.811 h
September	17.5°C6.1°C	6.1°C	62	5.7	11.812 h
October	20.5°C8.2°C	8.2°C	40	5.1	13.013 h
November	24.5°C10.6°C	10.6°C	15	2.0	14.014 h
December	27.6°C13.2°C	13.2°C	13	1.6	14.514 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

Distance from Talca

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 Talca) is explained once on the Talca year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.