Climate and average weather in Ancud

In Ancud, the summers are mild, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are cool and mostly cloudy.

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ancud typically varies from 7°C to 17°C, and is rarely below 5°C or above 19°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Ancud for warm-weather activities is from early January to late March.

Hottest
Feb
17°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Jun
281 mm
Driest
Feb
59 mm
Rain / yr
1824 mm
171 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
51 m
41.9°S
Clearest
Feb
49% cloud

Ancud is city in Chile.

Density
4,730/km²
people per km²
Founded
1768

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

Ancud 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 January to late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ancud stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 17°C and low of 12°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 7°C and high of 10°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1612
Feb1712
Mar1612
Apr1410
May129
Jun118
Jul107
Aug118
Sep118
Oct129
Nov1310
Dec1511

Average hourly temperature in Ancud

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 February afternoons, near 17°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

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

Ancud 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
Jan16° / 12°628.814.75.4
Feb17° / 12°597.613.75.6
Mar16° / 12°9511.312.34.8
Apr14° / 10°14414.610.93.5
May12° / 22517.69.72.7
Jun11° / 28119.992.0
Jul10° / 24419.39.31.8
Aug11° / 24619.410.32.0
Sep11° / 14714.911.72.4
Oct12° / 13114.613.12.9
Nov13° / 10°10411.714.43.7
Dec15° / 11°8710.8154.5

Chance of rain

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

Ancud gets about 1824 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.3 months, from around Apr 10 to Oct 18, peaking in June at about 68% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 13.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 281 mm over about 20 wet days; February is the driest, with 59 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 28 · 68%Feb 13 · 26%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb288
Mar3611
Apr4815
May5718
Jun6520
Jul6319
Aug6119
Sep5115
Oct4715
Nov3912
Dec3411

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ancud collects about 1824 mm of rain across 171 wet days — roughly 152 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 281 mm, while February is the driest at just 59 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec62599514422528124424614713110487
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan629
Feb598
Mar9511
Apr14415
May22518
Jun28120
Jul24419
Aug24619
Sep14715
Oct13115
Nov10412
Dec8711

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ancud, 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 November 26 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around April 13. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 14 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around November 25. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 70% 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 31 · 62%Jun 27 · 29%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5941
Feb5941
Mar5446
Apr4357
May3367
Jun3070
Jul3367
Aug3664
Sep4159
Oct4159
Nov4258
Dec4852

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 15 hours of light; the shortest, around June 9, only 9 hours — a swing of roughly 6 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan14.76:439:26
Feb13.77:199:00
Mar12.37:548:15
Apr10.98:297:22
May9.79:026:41
Jun9.09:266:25
Jul9.39:246:38
Aug10.38:507:08
Sep11.77:587:41
Oct13.17:068:15
Nov14.46:288:53
Dec15.06:219:22

Sunny days

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

Ancud averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around Nov 26 to Apr 11. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 4 sunny days — about 70% fewer than the February peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightFeb 713 daysJun 273 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct7Gloomy
Nov7Gloomy
Dec8Mixed

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 Ancud, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in January, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% 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 (%)
Jan8713
Feb8515
Mar919
Apr982
May991
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec973

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 Ancud is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.2 months, from around May 17 to Sep 22. The windiest month is June, averaging about 18 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Dec 31 to May 16, with March the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJun 27 · 19 km/hMar 25 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May16light breeze
Jun18light breeze
Jul18light breeze
Aug18light breeze
Sep16light breeze
Oct16light breeze
Nov16light breeze
Dec16light breeze

Hazard calendar for Ancud

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Ancud's rainy season runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Ancud

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Ancud 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 time of year to visit Ancud for general outdoor tourist activities is from late December to late March, with a peak score in the second week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 10 · 5.8

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
Jan5.4fair
Feb5.6good
Mar4.8fair
Apr3.6fair
May2.7poor
Jun2.0poor
Jul1.8poor
Aug2.0poor
Sep2.4poor
Oct2.9poor
Nov3.7fair
Dec4.5fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Ancud rarely gets warm enough to lift this score — no time of year really suits hot-weather activities here.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectemperaturecloudsprecipitation

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 Ancud, 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 February (highs near 17°C), the essentials are a warm layer and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 10°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Ancud sees daytime highs around 17°C and nights near 12°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: a warm layer. About 8 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Ancud

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 26 km away) is warmest in January at about 14°C and coldest in August near 11°C.

The water stays below 20°C all year — cool enough that most swimmers want a wetsuit.

10°12°14°16°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcool
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan14Bracing
Feb14Bracing
Mar14Bracing
Apr13Bracing
May12Bracing
Jun12Bracing
Jul11Bracing
Aug11Bracing
Sep11Bracing
Oct11Bracing
Nov12Bracing
Dec14Bracing

UV index (midday) in Ancud 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 Ancud peaks around December 23 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 19 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeModerateLowModerateHighVery highExtremeDec 23UV 12Jun 19UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb11Extreme
Mar7High
Apr4Moderate
May2Moderate
Jun1Low
Jul2Low
Aug2Moderate
Sep4Moderate
Oct7High
Nov8Very high
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Ancud

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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)
Jan96.5
Feb8.56
Mar6.52.5
Apr40
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep40
Oct6.52.5
Nov84.5
Dec96.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ancud is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
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. Ancud banks about 615 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

0200400600800JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan134
Feb125
Mar112
Apr59
May24
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct14
Nov51
Dec96

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.

Ancud receives about 4.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.3 and 7.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Sep 26 to Mar 23. The brightest month is January, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 1.3 kWh/m² — roughly 81% less than the January peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseJan 87.1 kWhJun 231.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan7.0Intense
Feb6.0Intense
Mar4.4Bright
Apr2.8Moderate
May1.7Dim
Jun1.3Dim
Jul1.6Dim
Aug2.3Moderate
Sep3.6Moderate
Oct5.0Bright
Nov6.1Intense
Dec6.9Intense

Where is Ancud?

Ancud sits at 41.9°S, 73.8°W, 51 m above sea level, in Chile. The nearest listed city is Maullín, 33 km away.

Topography around Ancud

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ancud has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 222 m around an average of 30 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 362 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 847 m.

The land around Ancud is covered by water (52%) and trees (22%) within 3 km, water (40%), trees (39%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and water (52%) and trees (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
222 m
16 km
362 m
80 km
847 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Maullín 33 km · Calbuco 58 km · Castro 67 km · Puerto Montt 85 km · Puerto Varas 92 km · Llanquihue 96 km · Frutillar 105 km · Purranque 120 km

Chile travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F / L
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 48% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$17,995
2025
Happiness
6.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
98%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
6.3
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
14.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 517
Religion
Catholic 57%none 26%Evangelical or Protestant 16%other Christians and traditions related to 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 Ancud (-41.8707°, -73.8162°, elevation 51 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).