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Concepción climate by month
What the weather is like
Concepción has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is January, when afternoons average 24° and nights 13°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 13° and lows of 6°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 9°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,591 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (321 mm, 14 wet days) and February the driest (27 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 10% in January to 49% in June.
The sea reaches about 14° in January. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Santiago, the capital, Concepción is 5.2° cooler on a January afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 24° · January
- Coldest nights
- 6° · July
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- January · 10% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 14° · January
- Longest day
- 14 h 40 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 39 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 24° | 24° | 22° | 18° | 15° | 13° | 13° | 14° | 15° | 18° | 20° | 22° |
| Average low | 13° | 13° | 12° | 10° | 8° | 7° | 6° | 6° | 7° | 8° | 10° | 12° |
| Precipitation | 22 mm | 27 mm | 32 mm | 94 mm | 293 mm | 321 mm | 294 mm | 210 mm | 118 mm | 92 mm | 54 mm | 34 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 6.3 | 8 | 14 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 7.8 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 1 |
| Cloud cover | 10% | 11% | 18% | 29% | 45% | 49% | 45% | 41% | 34% | 28% | 20% | 14% |
| Sea temperature | 14° | 14° | 14° | 13° | 13° | 12° | 12° | 12° | 12° | 13° | 13° | 14° |
| Daylight | 14h 24 | 13h 26 | 12h 21 | 11h 09 | 10h 10 | 9h 39 | 9h 52 | 10h 42 | 11h 50 | 13h 00 | 14h 05 | 14h 40 |
| Month score | 98 | 99 | 96 | 85 | 60 | 34 | 40 | 50 | 66 | 89 | 96 | 98 |