Climate and average weather in Cinco Saltos

In Cinco Saltos, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cool and mostly clear.

Best: early September to mid December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cinco Saltos typically varies from 3°C to 31°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 36°C. January is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Cinco Saltos for warm-weather activities are from late February to early May and early September to mid December.

Hottest
Jan
31°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Oct
34 mm
Driest
Jan
14 mm
Rain / yr
254 mm
41 wet days
Daylight
9.3–14.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
288 m
38.8°S
Clearest
Jan
23% cloud

Cinco Saltos is city in Río Negro Province, Argentina.

Founded
1911

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Cinco Saltos weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early September to mid December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Cinco Saltos, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from November 17 to March 14, with daily high temperatures above 27°C. The hottest month of the year in Cinco Saltos is January, with an average high of 31°C and low of 18°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from May 16 to August 21, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Cinco Saltos is July, with an average low of 3°C and high of 12°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in December.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3118
Feb3017
Mar2614
Apr2110
May166
Jun134
Jul123
Aug154
Sep197
Oct2210
Nov2613
Dec3016

How hot and cold Cinco Saltos really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -1°C (around July 21), with roughly 32 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31311818
Feb30301717
Mar26261414
Apr2121910
May161646
Jun131314
Jul121203
Aug151514
Sep191947
Oct2222910
Nov26261313
Dec30301616

Average hourly temperature in Cinco Saltos

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on January afternoons, near 31°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Cinco Saltos weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan31° / 18°14314.45.4
Feb30° / 17°203.113.56.3
Mar26° / 14°223.112.38.0
Apr21° / 10°253.4117.8
May16° / 285.29.95.7
Jun13° / 214.49.33.9
Jul12° / 193.59.64.0
Aug15° / 14310.55.5
Sep19° / 203.511.77.1
Oct22° / 10°343.7137.9
Nov26° / 13°212.914.18.1
Dec30° / 16°162.614.76.5

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Cinco Saltos gets about 254 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 2.6 months, from around Apr 27 to Jul 13, peaking in May at about 17% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 18.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 34 mm over about 4 wet days; January is the driest, with 14 mm.

0%10%20%30%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainMay 20 · 17%Dec 18 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan103
Feb113
Mar113
Apr113
May165
Jun154
Jul114
Aug103
Sep114
Oct124
Nov103
Dec83

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cinco Saltos collects about 254 mm of rain across 41 wet days — roughly 21 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 34 mm, while January is the driest at just 14 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 34% of the year’s total.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec142022252821191420342116
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan143
Feb203
Mar223
Apr253
May285
Jun214
Jul194
Aug143
Sep204
Oct344
Nov213
Dec163

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Cinco Saltos, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 19 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around April 16. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 17 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around October 18. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 49% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 15 · 89%May 20 · 48%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8812
Feb8515
Mar7921
Apr6733
May5149
Jun5149
Jul5743
Aug5842
Sep5941
Oct6634
Nov7525
Dec8317

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around January 1, brings about 14 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around June 11, only 9 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan14.46:288:55
Feb13.57:028:32
Mar12.37:337:51
Apr11.08:037:02
May9.98:326:25
Jun9.38:546:11
Jul9.68:526:24
Aug10.58:226:51
Sep11.77:347:19
Oct13.06:467:48
Nov14.16:138:22
Dec14.76:078:50

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Cinco Saltos averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Nov 11 to Apr 17. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is June, down near 11 sunny days — about 52% fewer than the January peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJan 1524 daysJun 1711 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan24Brilliant
Feb21Bright
Mar21Bright
Apr16Bright
May12Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul14Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep14Mixed
Oct16Bright
Nov17Bright
Dec21Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Cinco Saltos, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in January, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 4% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan9163
Feb8884
Mar9072
Apr9820
May10000
Jun10000
Jul10000
Aug10000
Sep10000
Oct10000
Nov9820
Dec9641

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Cinco Saltos is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.5 months, from around Sep 14 to Feb 28. The windiest month is December, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 1 to Sep 13, with May the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 11 · 17 km/hMay 16 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan16light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May11calm
Jun12calm
Jul12calm
Aug12light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct15light breeze
Nov16light breeze
Dec17light breeze

Best time to visit Cinco Saltos

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Cinco Saltos throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early December, Cinco Saltos is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Cinco Saltos for general outdoor tourist activities run from late February to early May and again from early September to mid December, with a peak score in the last week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 25 · 8.4

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan5.5fair
Feb6.3good
Mar8.0ideal
Apr7.8ideal
May5.7good
Jun4.0fair
Jul4.0fair
Aug5.5good
Sep7.1good
Oct7.9ideal
Nov8.0ideal
Dec6.5good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Cinco Saltos for hot-weather activities is from late October to late March, with a peak score in the second week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 12 · 8.6

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Cinco Saltos, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around January (highs near 31°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 12°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Cinco Saltos sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 3 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Cinco Saltos by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Cinco Saltos peaks around December 20 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 23 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highModerateLowModerateVery highExtremeDec 20UV 12Jun 23UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar8Very high
Apr5High
May3Moderate
Jun2Low
Jul2Low
Aug3Moderate
Sep5Moderate
Oct8Very high
Nov10Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Cinco Saltos

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in December the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan96.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar74
Apr50
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep50
Oct7.54.5
Nov8.56
Dec9.57
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Cinco Saltos is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about August 18 to June 3 (290 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freereliably frost-freeAug 1890%Jun 390%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May961
Jun8730
Jul7931
Aug8919
Sep990
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Cinco Saltos banks about 2,312 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around January.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan449
Feb374
Mar320
Apr163
May39
Jun0
Jul0
Aug8
Sep81
Oct190
Nov292
Dec396

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Cinco Saltos receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.0 and 8.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Sep 25 to Mar 20. The brightest month is December, averaging about 8.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 2.1 kWh/m² — roughly 76% less than the December peak.

012345678910JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 268.7 kWhJun 192.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan8.4Intense
Feb7.1Intense
Mar5.5Bright
Apr3.8Moderate
May2.5Moderate
Jun2.0Moderate
Jul2.4Moderate
Aug3.4Moderate
Sep4.8Bright
Oct6.3Intense
Nov8.0Intense
Dec8.6Intense

Where is Cinco Saltos?

Cinco Saltos sits at 38.8°S, 68.1°W, 288 m above sea level, in Argentina. The nearest listed city is Centenario, 6.0 km away.

Topography around Cinco Saltos

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Cinco Saltos.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cinco Saltos has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 84 m around an average of 301 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 159 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 698 m.

The land around Cinco Saltos is covered by shrubs (29%) and trees (21%) within 3 km, shrubs (48%) within 16 km, and shrubs (81%) within 80 km.

3 km
84 m
16 km
159 m
80 km
698 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Centenario 6.0 km · Cipolletti 14 km · Neuquén 14 km · Plottier 22 km · Allen 27 km · General Roca 48 km · Villa Regina 90 km · Cutral-Có 102 km

Argentina travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / I
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 46% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$14,898
2025
Happiness
6.4 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
4.5
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
14.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 575
Religion
Roman Catholic 63%none 19%Evangelical 15%Jehovah's Witness and Church of Jesus Christ 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Cinco Saltos (-38.8222°, -68.0629°, elevation 288 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).