Climate averages 1991–2020
Stanley weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Stanley: daytime highs average 13.4°C and nights cool to about 7.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 04 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Río Gallegos (785 km away). In January its highs average 18.3°C, 4.9°C warmer than Stanley, with 42 mm of rain.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 13.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 62 mm to 53 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
Stanley climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 13.4°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 62 | 13.1 | 16.116 h |
| February | 13.0°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 53 | 12.0 | 14.514 h |
| March | 11.8°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 55 | 12.1 | 12.513 h |
| April | 9.3°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 51 | 12.5 | 10.511 h |
| May | 6.9°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 48 | 12.0 | 8.89 h |
| June | 5.0°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 47 | 12.3 | 7.98 h |
| July | 4.5°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 49 | 12.3 | 8.38 h |
| August | 5.4°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 39 | 10.3 | 9.810 h |
| September | 6.5°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 37 | 9.9 | 11.712 h |
| October | 8.6°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 41 | 10.1 | 13.714 h |
| November | 10.6°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 50 | 11.5 | 15.516 h |
| December | 12.0°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 66 | 14.2 | 16.617 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
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 Stanley) is explained once on the Stanley year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.