Valparaíso climate by month
What the weather is like
Valparaíso has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is February, when afternoons average 19° and nights 15°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 14° and lows of 10°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 5°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 559 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (131 mm, 6 wet days) and February the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 11% in January to 39% in June.
The sea reaches about 17° in February. 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, Valparaíso is 10.2° cooler on a February afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 19° · February
- Coldest nights
- 10° · July
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- January · 11% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 17° · February
- Longest day
- 14 h 19 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 59 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 | 18° | 19° | 18° | 17° | 15° | 15° | 14° | 14° | 14° | 15° | 16° | 17° |
| Average low | 15° | 15° | 15° | 13° | 12° | 11° | 10° | 10° | 11° | 12° | 13° | 14° |
| Precipitation | 1 mm | 2 mm | 6 mm | 20 mm | 119 mm | 131 mm | 136 mm | 84 mm | 36 mm | 14 mm | 8 mm | 2 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 5.8 | 2.8 | 3 | 2 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0.2 |
| Cloud cover | 11% | 11% | 15% | 21% | 37% | 39% | 35% | 32% | 30% | 24% | 17% | 12% |
| Sea temperature | 17° | 17° | 17° | 15° | 14° | 14° | 13° | 13° | 13° | 13° | 14° | 16° |
| Daylight | 14h 05 | 13h 15 | 12h 19 | 11h 17 | 10h 26 | 9h 59 | 10h 10 | 10h 53 | 11h 52 | 12h 53 | 13h 49 | 14h 19 |
| Month score | 98 | 100 | 99 | 90 | 78 | 64 | 69 | 70 | 75 | 83 | 86 | 96 |