Climate and average weather in Tunuyán

In Tunuyán, the summers are warm, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: mid September to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tunuyán typically varies from -0°C to 28°C, and is rarely below -5°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 time of year to visit Tunuyán for warm-weather activities is from mid September to late April.

Hottest
Jan
28°
Coldest
Jul
-0°
Wettest
Mar
85 mm
Driest
Jul
49 mm
Rain / yr
826 mm
117 wet days
Daylight
9.8–14.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
864 m
33.6°S
Clearest
Nov
32% cloud

Tunuyán is city in Mendoza, Argentina.

Founded
1880

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

Tunuyán 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 September to late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Tunuyán, 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 10 to March 15, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Tunuyán is January, with an average high of 28°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from May 18 to August 21, with daily high temperatures below 14°C. The coldest month of the year in Tunuyán is July, with an average low of -0°C and high of 11°C.

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

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2815
Feb2614
Mar2412
Apr198
May154
Jun121
Jul110
Aug141
Sep174
Oct217
Nov2410
Dec2713

How hot and cold Tunuyán 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 -2°C (around July 17), with roughly 80 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)
Jan28281515
Feb26261414
Mar24241212
Apr191978
May151534
Jun1212-11
Jul1111-20
Aug1414-11
Sep171724
Oct212167
Nov24241010
Dec27271313

Average hourly temperature in Tunuyán

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near -0°C.

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

Tunuyán weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan28° / 15°6810.20146.6
Feb26° / 14°6810013.26.8
Mar24° / 12°8511.7012.36.9
Apr19° / 80110.111.26.3
May15° / 6710.50.510.34.5
Jun12° / 547.91.49.83.3
Jul11° / -0°497.62.3103.1
Aug14° / 567.81.910.84.4
Sep17° / 629.10.911.85.8
Oct21° / 8310.40.112.86.9
Nov24° / 10°7910.8013.77.2
Dec27° / 13°759.9014.26.9

Chance of rain

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

Tunuyán gets about 826 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.8 months, from around Dec 31 to May 26, peaking in April at about 39% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 10.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 85 mm over about 12 wet days; July is the driest, with 49 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 2 · 39%Jul 10 · 24%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3310
Feb3610
Mar3812
Apr3611
May3311
Jun278
Jul258
Aug268
Sep309
Oct3310
Nov3611
Dec3310

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tunuyán collects about 826 mm of rain across 117 wet days — roughly 69 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 85 mm, while July is the driest at just 49 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec686885806754495662837975
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan68100
Feb68100
Mar85120
Apr80110
May67111
Jun5481
Jul4982
Aug5682
Sep6291
Oct83100
Nov79110
Dec75100

Snow in Tunuyán

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Tunuyán averages about 7 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly May 19 to Sep 25 — about 4.3 months.

July is snowiest, with roughly 2 days of snow and an estimated 14 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 40 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJul 17
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr00
May11
Jun18
Jul214
Aug213
Sep14
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tunuyán, 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 15 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around March 13. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 14 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around August 11. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 40% 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 24 · 88%May 19 · 57%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8515
Feb8119
Mar7426
Apr6832
May6040
Jun6634
Jul7129
Aug7327
Sep7228
Oct7525
Nov8218
Dec8614

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 12 min of light; the shortest, around June 8, only 9 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan14.06:458:45
Feb13.27:138:28
Mar12.37:387:53
Apr11.28:017:11
May10.38:246:40
Jun9.88:436:30
Jul10.08:426:41
Aug10.88:187:02
Sep11.87:377:24
Oct12.86:567:47
Nov13.76:288:14
Dec14.26:268:39

Sunny days

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

Tunuyán averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 13 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.4 months, from around Oct 10 to Mar 23. The sunniest month is November, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 14 sunny days — about 34% fewer than the November peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantNov 2321 daysMay 2013 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr16Bright
May14Mixed
Jun15Bright
Jul17Bright
Aug19Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct19Bright
Nov20Bright
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 Tunuyán, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in February, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 3% 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 (%)
Jan74233
Feb74223
Mar80192
Apr9820
May10000
Jun10000
Jul10000
Aug10000
Sep10000
Oct10000
Nov9910
Dec89101

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 Tunuyán is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeNov 26 · 8 km/hJun 14 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Best time to visit Tunuyán

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid April, Tunuyán 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 time of year to visit Tunuyán for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid September to late April, with a peak score in the second week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 12 · 7.3

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
Jan6.6good
Feb6.8good
Mar6.9good
Apr6.2good
May4.5fair
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug4.4fair
Sep5.8good
Oct6.9good
Nov7.2good
Dec6.9good

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 Tunuyán for hot-weather activities is from early November to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 25 · 7.4

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 Tunuyán, 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 28°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 11°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Tunuyán sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Tunuyán 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 Tunuyán peaks around January 17 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 20 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 11 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeHighModerateHighExtremeJan 17UV 15Jun 20UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar11Extreme
Apr6High
May5High
Jun3Moderate
Jul4Moderate
Aug6High
Sep6High
Oct10Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Tunuyán

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 9.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7.5 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)
Jan9.57.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar85.5
Apr5.51
May4.50
Jun10
Jul30
Aug50
Sep62.5
Oct85.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec9.57
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Tunuyán typically lasts about 339 days, from around July 31 to July 4 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from September 12 to May 18.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasongrowing seasonJul 3150%Sep 1290%May 1890%Jul 450%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr990
May8913
Jun6130
Jul4731
Aug6631
Sep9113
Oct990
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. Tunuyán banks about 1,669 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around January.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan358
Feb287
Mar240
Apr99
May7
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep20
Oct128
Nov219
Dec312

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.

Tunuyán receives about 5.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.8 and 8.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Sep 17 to Mar 17. The brightest month is December, averaging about 8.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 2.8 kWh/m² — roughly 66% less than the December peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 188.4 kWhJun 182.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan7.9Intense
Feb7.0Intense
Mar5.7Bright
Apr4.3Bright
May3.2Moderate
Jun2.8Moderate
Jul3.2Moderate
Aug4.2Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct6.9Intense
Nov8.0Intense
Dec8.3Intense

Where is Tunuyán?

Tunuyán sits at 33.6°S, 69.0°W, 864 m above sea level, in Argentina. The nearest listed city is Tupungato, 27 km away.

Topography around Tunuyán

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tunuyán has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 92 m around an average of 885 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 203 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 5,950 m.

The land around Tunuyán is covered by grassland (29%), shrubs (23%) and cropland (20%) within 3 km, shrubs (44%) and cropland (28%) within 16 km, and shrubs (44%), grassland (25%) and bare terrain (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
92 m
16 km
203 m
80 km
5,950 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainsnow and icewater
Nearby: Tupungato 27 km · Perdriel 58 km · Rivadavia 67 km · Rodeo del Medio 72 km · San Martín 75 km · Mendoza 79 km · San Rafael 131 km · Peñalolén 141 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 Tunuyán (-33.5812°, -69.0154°, elevation 864 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).