Climate and average weather in General Pico

In General Pico, the summers are hot, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: mid August to mid December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in General Pico typically varies from 4°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 35°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 General Pico for warm-weather activities are from late January to late May and mid August to mid December.

Hottest
Jan
30°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Mar
96 mm
Driest
Jul
17 mm
Rain / yr
768 mm
79 wet days
Daylight
9.6–14.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
112 m
35.7°S
Clearest
Jan
36% cloud

General Pico is city in the northeast of La Pampa Province, Argentina.

Founded
1905

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

General Pico 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 mid August to mid December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.1 months, from November 14 to March 17, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in General Pico is January, with an average high of 30°C and low of 18°C.

The cool season lasts 2.9 months, from May 21 to August 15, with daily high temperatures below 17°C. The coldest month of the year in General Pico is July, with an average low of 4°C and high of 14°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3018
Feb2817
Mar2615
Apr2212
May188
Jun155
Jul144
Aug175
Sep208
Oct2211
Nov2614
Dec2917

Average hourly temperature in General Pico

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

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

General Pico 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
Jan30° / 18°928.914.15.7
Feb28° / 17°827.613.36.5
Mar26° / 15°967.812.37.3
Apr22° / 12°787.111.17.3
May18° / 344.610.16.4
Jun15° / 1839.65.1
Jul14° / 1739.84.9
Aug17° / 314.110.76.4
Sep20° / 555.811.87.0
Oct22° / 11°919.512.97.0
Nov26° / 14°908.813.97.2
Dec29° / 17°858.414.46.2

Chance of rain

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

General Pico gets about 768 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.8 months, from around Sep 24 to Apr 18, peaking in October at about 33% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 30.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 96 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 17 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetOct 26 · 33%Jun 30 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan289
Feb278
Mar268
Apr237
May155
Jun103
Jul103
Aug134
Sep206
Oct3010
Nov309
Dec278

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, General Pico collects about 768 mm of rain across 79 wet days — roughly 64 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 96 mm, while July is the driest at just 17 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec928296783418173155919085
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan929
Feb828
Mar968
Apr787
May345
Jun183
Jul173
Aug314
Sep556
Oct9110
Nov909
Dec858

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In General Pico, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around November 1 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around April 1. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 75% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 2 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around August 16. The cloudiest month is May, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 21 · 77%May 23 · 48%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7525
Feb7129
Mar6733
Apr6139
May5149
Jun5248
Jul5446
Aug6139
Sep6040
Oct5842
Nov6931
Dec7525

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 24 min of light; the shortest, around June 10, only 9 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan14.16:198:29
Feb13.36:498:10
Mar12.37:167:33
Apr11.17:426:48
May10.18:086:15
Jun9.68:276:03
Jul9.88:266:15
Aug10.78:006:38
Sep11.87:167:03
Oct12.96:327:28
Nov13.96:037:58
Dec14.45:598:23

Sunny days

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

General Pico averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.9 months, from around Nov 5 to Apr 2. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 12 sunny days — about 38% fewer than the January peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJan 1919 daysMay 2410 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar16Bright
Apr14Mixed
May12Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug15Mixed
Sep14Mixed
Oct14Mixed
Nov16Bright
Dec19Bright

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 General Pico, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.2 months, from around November 30 to April 7. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 52% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 8 to November 29, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 1 · 100%Jan 29 · 43%muggyhumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan242428213
Feb242329214
Mar352724122
Apr68191030
May879300
Jun982000
Jul991000
Aug982000
Sep964100
Oct8214310
Nov66221020
Dec432621101

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.

Wind in General Pico is steady company: average speeds sit near 12 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeOct 3 · 13 km/hJun 25 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb12calm
Mar12calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug12light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec12light breeze

Best time to visit General Pico

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late August, General Pico is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 General Pico for general outdoor tourist activities run from early February to late May and again from mid August to mid December, with a peak score in the last week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 25 · 7.6

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
Jan5.8good
Feb6.5good
Mar7.3good
Apr7.3good
May6.4good
Jun5.1fair
Jul5.0fair
Aug6.4good
Sep7.0good
Oct7.1good
Nov7.1good
Dec6.2good

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 General Pico for hot-weather activities is from early November to early April, with a peak score in the third week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 20 · 7.7

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 General Pico, 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 30°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 14°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, General Pico sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in General Pico 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 General Pico peaks around January 15 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 21 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highModerateVery highExtremeJan 15UV 13Jun 21UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar9Very high
Apr6High
May3Moderate
Jun2Moderate
Jul3Moderate
Aug4Moderate
Sep6High
Oct9Very high
Nov11Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in General Pico

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 January the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 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)
Jan97
Feb8.56.5
Mar7.54.5
Apr5.50
May20
Jun00
Jul00
Aug30
Sep5.50
Oct7.54.5
Nov8.56
Dec97
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

General Pico is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about August 11 to June 14 (308 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freereliably frost-freeAug 1190%Jun 1490%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May980
Jun9013
Jul8331
Aug9112
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. General Pico banks about 2,447 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)
Jan425
Feb354
Mar325
Apr200
May88
Jun3
Jul0
Aug36
Sep114
Oct211
Nov298
Dec393

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.

General Pico receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.3 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Sep 21 to Mar 18. The brightest month is December, averaging about 7.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 2.3 kWh/m² — roughly 70% less than the December peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 217.7 kWhJun 202.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan7.5Intense
Feb6.5Intense
Mar5.0Bright
Apr3.6Moderate
May2.7Moderate
Jun2.3Moderate
Jul2.5Moderate
Aug3.5Moderate
Sep4.7Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov7.2Intense
Dec7.7Intense

Where is General Pico?

General Pico sits at 35.7°S, 63.8°W, 112 m above sea level, in Argentina. The nearest listed city is General Villegas, 97 km away.

Topography around General Pico

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around General Pico has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 19 m around an average of 141 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 41 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 150 m.

The land around General Pico is covered by artificial surfaces (46%), cropland (22%) and grassland (20%) within 3 km, cropland (84%) within 16 km, and cropland (91%) within 80 km.

3 km
19 m
16 km
41 m
80 km
150 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: General Villegas 97 km · Trenque Lauquen 99 km · Santa Rosa 117 km · Toay 126 km · Pehuajó 169 km · Laboulaye 174 km · Rufino 182 km · General Acha 206 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 General Pico (-35.6593°, -63.7579°, elevation 112 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).