Climate and average weather in San Carlos de Bolívar

In San Carlos de Bolívar, the summers are hot, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: late August to early January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in San Carlos de Bolívar typically varies from 3°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 33°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 San Carlos de Bolívar for warm-weather activities are from mid January to mid May and late August to early January.

Hottest
Jan
29°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Jan
107 mm
Driest
Jul
34 mm
Rain / yr
916 mm
87 wet days
Daylight
9.5–14.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
95 m
36.2°S
Clearest
Jan
39% cloud

San Carlos de Bolívar is town in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Founded
1878

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

San Carlos de Bolívar 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 late August to early January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from November 18 to March 18, with daily high temperatures above 25°C. The hottest month of the year in San Carlos de Bolívar is January, with an average high of 29°C and low of 16°C.

The cool season lasts 2.9 months, from May 24 to August 18, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in San Carlos de Bolívar is July, with an average low of 3°C and high of 13°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in December.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2916
Feb2716
Mar2514
Apr2111
May178
Jun144
Jul133
Aug165
Sep187
Oct2110
Nov2412
Dec2815

How hot and cold San Carlos de Bolívar 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 -0°C (around July 14), with roughly 4 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in July.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29291616
Feb27271616
Mar25251414
Apr21211011
May171758
Jun141414
Jul131303
Aug161625
Sep181847
Oct2121910
Nov24241212
Dec28281515

Average hourly temperature in San Carlos de Bolívar

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

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

San Carlos de Bolívar 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
Jan29° / 16°1079.414.26.1
Feb27° / 16°947.913.46.9
Mar25° / 14°998.112.37.4
Apr21° / 11°917.811.17.0
May17° / 495.510.16.1
Jun14° / 364.69.64.6
Jul13° / 344.79.84.3
Aug16° / 494.710.65.7
Sep18° / 666.811.86.4
Oct21° / 10°1039.712.96.7
Nov24° / 12°998.813.97.2
Dec28° / 15°908.614.46.7

Chance of rain

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

San Carlos de Bolívar gets about 916 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 7.0 months, from around Sep 23 to Apr 22, peaking in November at about 32% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 30.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 107 mm over about 9 wet days; July is the driest, with 34 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetNov 2 · 32%Jun 30 · 14%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan309
Feb298
Mar278
Apr258
May186
Jun165
Jul155
Aug165
Sep227
Oct3110
Nov309
Dec289

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, San Carlos de Bolívar collects about 916 mm of rain across 87 wet days — roughly 76 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 107 mm, while July is the driest at just 34 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 34% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec10794999149363449661039990
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan1079
Feb948
Mar998
Apr918
May496
Jun365
Jul345
Aug495
Sep667
Oct10310
Nov999
Dec909

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In San Carlos de Bolívar, 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 29 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around April 2. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 72% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 3 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around October 28. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 53% 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 21 · 75%May 25 · 44%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7228
Feb6733
Mar6337
Apr5743
May4753
Jun4852
Jul5050
Aug5545
Sep5347
Oct5446
Nov6337
Dec6931

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 December 16, brings about 14 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around June 16, only 9 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 5 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan14.26:078:20
Feb13.46:388:00
Mar12.37:067:23
Apr11.17:326:37
May10.17:586:03
Jun9.68:185:51
Jul9.88:176:03
Aug10.67:506:27
Sep11.87:066:52
Oct12.96:217:18
Nov13.95:517:48
Dec14.45:478:14

Sunny days

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

San Carlos de Bolívar averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.3 months, from around Nov 2 to Apr 12. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 10 sunny days — about 40% fewer than the January peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJan 2218 daysMay 2310 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar16Bright
Apr13Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun10Mixed
Jul11Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep12Mixed
Oct12Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec17Bright

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 San Carlos de Bolívar, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around December 2 to April 5. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 48% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 6 to December 1, 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 12 · 100%Jan 30 · 47%muggyhumidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan272429182
Feb272228203
Mar382823101
Apr7019830
May879400
Jun963100
Jul982000
Aug964100
Sep955100
Oct7917400
Nov63261010
Dec44282081

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 San Carlos de Bolívar is steady company: average speeds sit near 13 km/hlight breeze — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeOct 2 · 14 km/hMay 14 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb12light breeze
Mar12light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12light breeze
Jun12light breeze
Jul13light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Best time to visit San Carlos de Bolívar

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early September, San Carlos de Bolívar 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 San Carlos de Bolívar for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid January to mid May and again from late August to early January, with a peak score in the last week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 24 · 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
Jan6.1good
Feb6.9good
Mar7.3good
Apr7.0good
May6.1good
Jun4.6fair
Jul4.4fair
Aug5.6good
Sep6.4good
Oct6.7good
Nov7.2good
Dec6.7good

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 San Carlos de Bolívar for hot-weather activities is from mid November to late March, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 29 · 7.6

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 San Carlos de Bolívar, 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 29°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 13°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, San Carlos de Bolívar sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 16°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in San Carlos de Bolívar 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 San Carlos de Bolívar peaks around January 11 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 highModerateHighVery highExtremeJan 11UV 13Jun 21UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb11Extreme
Mar9Very high
Apr6High
May3Moderate
Jun2Moderate
Jul3Moderate
Aug4Moderate
Sep5High
Oct8Very high
Nov10Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in San Carlos de Bolívar

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
Mar7.55
Apr5.50
May2.50
Jun00
Jul00
Aug30
Sep5.50
Oct74
Nov8.56
Dec9.57
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

San Carlos de Bolívar is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about August 17 to June 5 (293 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freereliably frost-freeAug 1790%Jun 590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May960
Jun8627
Jul7931
Aug8917
Sep970
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. San Carlos de Bolívar banks about 2,126 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around January.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan388
Feb326
Mar295
Apr178
May75
Jun1
Jul0
Aug19
Sep75
Oct168
Nov251
Dec351

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.

San Carlos de Bolívar receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 7.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Sep 24 to Mar 19. The brightest month is December, averaging about 7.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 2.2 kWh/m² — roughly 71% less than the December peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 197.6 kWhJun 182.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan7.4Intense
Feb6.4Intense
Mar5.0Bright
Apr3.6Moderate
May2.6Moderate
Jun2.2Moderate
Jul2.4Moderate
Aug3.3Moderate
Sep4.5Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov7.0Intense
Dec7.6Intense

Where is San Carlos de Bolívar?

San Carlos de Bolívar sits at 36.2°S, 61.1°W, 95 m above sea level, in Argentina. The nearest listed city is Carlos Casares, 71 km away.

Topography around San Carlos de Bolívar

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of San Carlos de Bolívar.

Within 3 km, the terrain around San Carlos de Bolívar has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 13 m around an average of 93 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 42 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 221 m.

The land around San Carlos de Bolívar is covered by grassland (43%), cropland (26%) and artificial surfaces (23%) within 3 km, cropland (55%) and grassland (42%) within 16 km, and cropland (54%) and grassland (45%) within 80 km.

3 km
13 m
16 km
42 m
80 km
221 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Carlos Casares 71 km · Pehuajó 85 km · Nueve de Julio 90 km · Olavarría 102 km · Veinticinco de Mayo 123 km · Azul 128 km · Bragado 136 km · Los Toldos 137 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 San Carlos de Bolívar (-36.2307°, -61.1157°, elevation 95 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).