El Calafate weather in April

In April, El Calafate sees average daytime highs of 10°C and overnight lows near 3°C, with 72 mm of precipitation across 11.9 wet days and about 10.5 hours of daylight. It is the 6th-warmest and 1st-wettest month of the year here.

Highs ease over the month, from about 11°C in the first days to 8°C by the end. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 18% of the time in April, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 11 h 24 min at the start of April to 9 h 36 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, April is El Calafate's 9th-clearest and 7th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see El Calafate's year-round climate.

Daytime high: 10°; 6th warmest
Overnight low: 3°; 7th coldest
Precipitation: 72 mm; 11.9 wet days
Daylight: 10 h 30 min; 8:35 AM – 7:04 PM
Cloud cover: 66%; 9th clearest
Wind: 7 km/h; 7th windiest
Solar energy: 2.25 kWh/m²
Travel score: 2.0; out of 10

El Calafate is town in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.

Density: 998/km²; people per km²
Founded: 1927

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

← March El Calafate year-round climate May →Best places to visit in April

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Temperature in April

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Highs ease over the month, from about 11°C in the first days to 8°C by the end.

A typical April day in El Calafate reaches about 10°C in the afternoon and slips back to 3°C overnight — a 7°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 6°C and 13°C. Set against its neighbours, April runs about 4°C cooler than March and about 4°C warmer than May.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Avg high (°C)	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8
Avg low (°C)	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	12	4
2	12	4
3	11	4
4	11	4
5	11	4
6	11	4
7	11	4
8	11	4
9	11	4
10	10	4
11	10	3
12	10	3
13	10	3
14	10	3
15	10	3
16	10	3
17	9	3
18	9	3
19	9	3
20	9	3
21	9	3
22	9	2
23	9	2
24	9	2
25	8	2
26	8	2
27	8	2
28	8	2
29	8	2
30	8	2

How April really feels in El Calafate

Once humidity and wind are folded in, April averages 0 days that feel above 32°C and 4 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C

heat index over the day's high

Days feeling ≤ 0°C

wind chill below the day's low

The story in April is cold — wind chill drags the overnight "feels like" below the raw low.

El Calafate weather by month

How April compares with the rest of the year at a glance. April is the 6th-warmest and 1st-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

Month	High / Low (°C)	Rainfall (mm)	Wet days	Snow days	Daylight (hours)	Travel score
Jan	16° / 7°	54	11.3	0	15.7	4.7
Feb	15° / 7°	63	10.1	0.3	14.3	4.6
Mar	13° / 6°	67	12.2	0.6	12.5	3.5
Apr	10° / 3°	72	11.9	2.8	10.5	2.0
May	6° / 0°	66	12.2	5.5	8.8	0.4
Jun	2° / -2°	50	10.1	7.8	7.9	0.0
Jul	2° / -3°	50	10.6	8.5	8.3	0.0
Aug	4° / -2°	53	10.9	8.5	9.7	0.0
Sep	7° / -1°	45	8.8	5.1	11.6	0.7
Oct	10° / 1°	53	9.4	3.6	13.5	2.1
Nov	12° / 4°	47	10.1	1.6	15.2	3.4
Dec	14° / 6°	57	11.7	0.7	16.1	4.0

Cloud cover in April

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 18% of the time in April.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 21% of April, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 61%.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Clearer (%)	41	42	42	41	41	41	41	41	40	40	40	40	40	39	39	39	39	39	38	38	38	37	37	37	36	36	36	36	36	35
Cloudier (%)	59	58	58	59	59	59	59	59	60	60	60	60	60	61	61	61	61	61	62	62	62	63	63	63	64	64	64	64	64	65

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	41	59
2	42	58
3	42	58
4	41	59
5	41	59
6	41	59
7	41	59
8	41	59
9	40	60
10	40	60
11	40	60
12	40	60
13	40	60
14	39	61
15	39	61
16	39	61
17	39	61
18	39	61
19	38	62
20	38	62
21	38	62
22	37	63
23	37	63
24	37	63
25	36	64
26	36	64
27	36	64
28	36	64
29	36	64
30	35	65

Chance of precipitation in April

Any precipitationSnow

El Calafate gets around 72 mm of rain and snow over 11.9 wet days in April, the wettest month. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable precipitation averages around 39% and peaks near 42% on the wettest days, and about 3 days bring snow. The odds climb toward the end of the month.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Rain chance (%)	36	36	36	36	36	36	37	37	38	38	39	39	39	39	40	40	40	40	41	41	41	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42
Snow chance (%)	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	7	7	8	8	9	9	10	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13

	Rain chance (%)	Snow chance (%)
1	36	5
2	36	5
3	36	5
4	36	5
5	36	5
6	36	5
7	37	6
8	37	6
9	38	6
10	38	7
11	39	7
12	39	8
13	39	8
14	39	9
15	40	9
16	40	10
17	40	10
18	40	11
19	41	11
20	41	11
21	41	12
22	42	12
23	42	12
24	42	13
25	42	13
26	42	13
27	42	13
28	42	13
29	42	13
30	42	13

Humidity in April

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of April feels dry — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, April lands in the dry band about 100% of days. It rarely turns muggy — the humid and sticky bands barely register.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Dry (%)	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100

Wind in April

Winds average 7 km/h in April.

Across April, daily wind ranges from about 6 km/h on the calmest days to 7 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Wind speed (km/h)	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	6
Feels	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm

	Wind speed (km/h)	Feels
1	7	calm
2	7	calm
3	7	calm
4	7	calm
5	7	calm
6	7	calm
7	7	calm
8	7	calm
9	7	calm
10	7	calm
11	7	calm
12	7	calm
13	7	calm
14	7	calm
15	7	calm
16	7	calm
17	7	calm
18	7	calm
19	7	calm
20	7	calm
21	7	calm
22	7	calm
23	7	calm
24	7	calm
25	7	calm
26	7	calm
27	7	calm
28	7	calm
29	6	calm
30	6	calm

Sunrise & sunset in April

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 11 h 24 min at the start of April to 9 h 36 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 108 minutes over April. Sunrise moves from 8:11 AM to 8:57 AM, and sunset from 7:37 PM to 6:35 PM.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Daylight (h)	11.4	11.4	11.3	11.2	11.2	11.1	11.0	11.0	10.9	10.9	10.8	10.7	10.7	10.6	10.5	10.5	10.4	10.4	10.3	10.2	10.2	10.1	10.0	10.0	9.9	9.9	9.8	9.7	9.7	9.6
Sunrise (AM)	8:11	8:12	8:14	8:16	8:17	8:19	8:20	8:22	8:24	8:25	8:27	8:29	8:30	8:32	8:33	8:35	8:37	8:38	8:40	8:41	8:43	8:45	8:46	8:48	8:49	8:51	8:53	8:54	8:56	8:57
Sunset (PM)	7:37	7:34	7:32	7:30	7:28	7:26	7:23	7:21	7:19	7:17	7:14	7:12	7:10	7:08	7:06	7:04	7:02	6:59	6:57	6:55	6:53	6:51	6:49	6:47	6:45	6:43	6:41	6:39	6:37	6:35

	Daylight (h)	Sunrise (AM)	Sunset (PM)
1	11.4	8:11	7:37
2	11.4	8:12	7:34
3	11.3	8:14	7:32
4	11.2	8:16	7:30
5	11.2	8:17	7:28
6	11.1	8:19	7:26
7	11.0	8:20	7:23
8	11.0	8:22	7:21
9	10.9	8:24	7:19
10	10.9	8:25	7:17
11	10.8	8:27	7:14
12	10.7	8:29	7:12
13	10.7	8:30	7:10
14	10.6	8:32	7:08
15	10.5	8:33	7:06
16	10.5	8:35	7:04
17	10.4	8:37	7:02
18	10.4	8:38	6:59
19	10.3	8:40	6:57
20	10.2	8:41	6:55
21	10.2	8:43	6:53
22	10.1	8:45	6:51
23	10.0	8:46	6:49
24	10.0	8:48	6:47
25	9.9	8:49	6:45
26	9.9	8:51	6:43
27	9.8	8:53	6:41
28	9.7	8:54	6:39
29	9.7	8:56	6:37
30	9.6	8:57	6:35

Solar energy in April

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in April, about 2.25 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 0.82 kWh/m² to a high of 7.16 kWh/m² in December across the year — April's 2.25 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Solar energy (kWh/m²)	2.9	2.9	2.9	2.8	2.8	2.7	2.6	2.6	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.4	2.4	2.3	2.3	2.2	2.2	2.1	2.1	2.0	2.0	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.6
Level	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Dim	Dim	Dim	Dim	Dim	Dim	Dim	Dim	Dim	Dim

	Solar energy (kWh/m²)	Level
1	2.9	Moderate
2	2.9	Moderate
3	2.9	Moderate
4	2.8	Moderate
5	2.8	Moderate
6	2.7	Moderate
7	2.6	Moderate
8	2.6	Moderate
9	2.5	Moderate
10	2.5	Moderate
11	2.5	Moderate
12	2.4	Moderate
13	2.4	Moderate
14	2.3	Moderate
15	2.3	Moderate
16	2.2	Moderate
17	2.2	Moderate
18	2.1	Moderate
19	2.1	Moderate
20	2.0	Moderate
21	2.0	Dim
22	1.9	Dim
23	1.9	Dim
24	1.9	Dim
25	1.8	Dim
26	1.8	Dim
27	1.8	Dim
28	1.7	Dim
29	1.7	Dim
30	1.6	Dim

Planning a trip in April

Is April a good time to visit El Calafate?

Our two travel scores rate April for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

2.0

Sightseeing

7th-best month of the year

—

Beach & pool

never really warm enough

April is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in El Calafate.

What to pack for El Calafate in April

From April's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In April, El Calafate sees daytime highs around 10°C and nights near 3°C. Pack a warm layer. Worth having: rain gear. About 12 days see rain.

a warm layerrain gear

UV index in El Calafate in April

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in April peaks around 3. The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in El Calafate peaks around January 12 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 21 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 7 months of the year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
UV index (midday)	10	9	5	3	1	1	1	2	3	6	7	10
Level	Extreme	Very high	High	Moderate	Low	Low	Low	Low	Moderate	High	High	Very high

	UV index (midday)	Level
Jan	10	Extreme
Feb	9	Very high
Mar	5	High
Apr	3	Moderate
May	1	Low
Jun	1	Low
Jul	1	Low
Aug	2	Low
Sep	3	Moderate
Oct	6	High
Nov	7	High
Dec	10	Very high

Location & terrain

Where is El Calafate?

El Calafate sits at 50.3°S, 72.3°W, 205 m above sea level, in Argentina. The nearest listed city is El Chalten, 121 km away.

Topography around El Calafate

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around El Calafate has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 256 m around an average of 239 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,322 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,782 m.

The land around El Calafate is covered by grassland (54%) within 3 km, grassland (53%) and water (36%) within 16 km, and grassland (51%) and bare terrain (26%) within 80 km.

3 km

256 m

grassland 54%

16 km

1,322 m

grassland 53%

80 km

2,782 m

grassland 51%

treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainsnow and icewatermoss and lichen

← March El Calafate year-round climate May →Best places to visit in April

April weather nearby: El Chalten 121 km · Puerto Natales 155 km · Río Gallegos 255 km · Punta Arenas 328 km · Las Heras 489 km · Río Grande 494 km · Pico Truncado 506 km · Coyhaique 530 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

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 El Calafate (-50.3407°, -72.2768°, elevation 205 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).

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	12	4
2	12	4
3	11	4
4	11	4
5	11	4
6	11	4
7	11	4
8	11	4
9	11	4
10	10	4
11	10	3
12	10	3
13	10	3
14	10	3
15	10	3
16	10	3
17	9	3
18	9	3
19	9	3
20	9	3
21	9	3
22	9	2
23	9	2
24	9	2
25	8	2
26	8	2
27	8	2
28	8	2
29	8	2
30	8	2

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	41	59
2	42	58
3	42	58
4	41	59
5	41	59
6	41	59
7	41	59
8	41	59
9	40	60
10	40	60
11	40	60
12	40	60
13	40	60
14	39	61
15	39	61
16	39	61
17	39	61
18	39	61
19	38	62
20	38	62
21	38	62
22	37	63
23	37	63
24	37	63
25	36	64
26	36	64
27	36	64
28	36	64
29	36	64
30	35	65

	Rain chance (%)	Snow chance (%)
1	36	5
2	36	5
3	36	5
4	36	5
5	36	5
6	36	5
7	37	6
8	37	6
9	38	6
10	38	7
11	39	7
12	39	8
13	39	8
14	39	9
15	40	9
16	40	10
17	40	10
18	40	11
19	41	11
20	41	11
21	41	12
22	42	12
23	42	12
24	42	13
25	42	13
26	42	13
27	42	13
28	42	13
29	42	13
30	42	13

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	12	4
2	12	4
3	11	4
4	11	4
5	11	4
6	11	4
7	11	4
8	11	4
9	11	4
10	10	4
11	10	3
12	10	3
13	10	3
14	10	3
15	10	3
16	10	3
17	9	3
18	9	3
19	9	3
20	9	3
21	9	3
22	9	2
23	9	2
24	9	2
25	8	2
26	8	2
27	8	2
28	8	2
29	8	2
30	8	2

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	41	59
2	42	58
3	42	58
4	41	59
5	41	59
6	41	59
7	41	59
8	41	59
9	40	60
10	40	60
11	40	60
12	40	60
13	40	60
14	39	61
15	39	61
16	39	61
17	39	61
18	39	61
19	38	62
20	38	62
21	38	62
22	37	63
23	37	63
24	37	63
25	36	64
26	36	64
27	36	64
28	36	64
29	36	64
30	35	65

	Rain chance (%)	Snow chance (%)
1	36	5
2	36	5
3	36	5
4	36	5
5	36	5
6	36	5
7	37	6
8	37	6
9	38	6
10	38	7
11	39	7
12	39	8
13	39	8
14	39	9
15	40	9
16	40	10
17	40	10
18	40	11
19	41	11
20	41	11
21	41	12
22	42	12
23	42	12
24	42	13
25	42	13
26	42	13
27	42	13
28	42	13
29	42	13
30	42	13

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	12	4
2	12	4
3	11	4
4	11	4
5	11	4
6	11	4
7	11	4
8	11	4
9	11	4
10	10	4
11	10	3
12	10	3
13	10	3
14	10	3
15	10	3
16	10	3
17	9	3
18	9	3
19	9	3
20	9	3
21	9	3
22	9	2
23	9	2
24	9	2
25	8	2
26	8	2
27	8	2
28	8	2
29	8	2
30	8	2

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	41	59
2	42	58
3	42	58
4	41	59
5	41	59
6	41	59
7	41	59
8	41	59
9	40	60
10	40	60
11	40	60
12	40	60
13	40	60
14	39	61
15	39	61
16	39	61
17	39	61
18	39	61
19	38	62
20	38	62
21	38	62
22	37	63
23	37	63
24	37	63
25	36	64
26	36	64
27	36	64
28	36	64
29	36	64
30	35	65

	Rain chance (%)	Snow chance (%)
1	36	5
2	36	5
3	36	5
4	36	5
5	36	5
6	36	5
7	37	6
8	37	6
9	38	6
10	38	7
11	39	7
12	39	8
13	39	8
14	39	9
15	40	9
16	40	10
17	40	10
18	40	11
19	41	11
20	41	11
21	41	12
22	42	12
23	42	12
24	42	13
25	42	13
26	42	13
27	42	13
28	42	13
29	42	13
30	42	13

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100