Climate and average weather in Coihueco

In Coihueco, the summers are warm, dry, and clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early January to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Coihueco typically varies from 3°C to 24°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 28°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 Coihueco for warm-weather activities are from early January to early April and mid November to late December.

Hottest
Jan
24°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Jun
366 mm
Driest
Jan
20 mm
Rain / yr
1712 mm
95 wet days
Daylight
9.5–14.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
257 m
36.6°S
Clearest
Jan
19% cloud

Coihueco 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 early April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from December 5 to March 24, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Coihueco is January, with an average high of 24°C and low of 11°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from May 19 to September 6, with daily high temperatures below 14°C. The coldest month of the year in Coihueco is July, with an average low of 3°C and high of 11°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2411
Feb2410
Mar229
Apr186
May145
Jun114
Jul113
Aug123
Sep144
Oct165
Nov197
Dec229

How hot and cold Coihueco 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 -1°C (around July 21), with roughly 34 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in July.

-5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan24241011
Feb24241010
Mar222289
Apr181856
May141435
Jun111114
Jul111103
Aug121203
Sep141424
Oct161635
Nov191967
Dec222289

Average hourly temperature in Coihueco

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 24°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

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

Coihueco 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
Jan24° / 11°202.3014.29.0
Feb24° / 10°382.9013.48.9
Mar22° / 343.6012.38.3
Apr18° / 1156.7011.16.4
May14° / 26510.80.110.14.1
Jun11° / 36614.70.79.52.5
Jul11° / 28912.81.39.82.5
Aug12° / 24713110.63.1
Sep14° / 1419.50.311.84.3
Oct16° / 1028.80.212.95.6
Nov19° / 525.20147.2
Dec22° / 454.5014.58.2

Chance of rain

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

Coihueco gets about 1712 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 5.7 months, from around May 1 to Oct 22, peaking in June at about 50% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 13.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 366 mm over about 15 wet days; January is the driest, with 20 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 15 · 50%Jan 13 · 8%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan82
Feb103
Mar124
Apr227
May3511
Jun4915
Jul4213
Aug4013
Sep3310
Oct289
Nov185
Dec145

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Coihueco collects about 1712 mm of rain across 95 wet days — roughly 143 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 366 mm, while January is the driest at just 20 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2038341152653662892471411025245
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2020
Feb3830
Mar3440
Apr11570
May265110
Jun366151
Jul289131
Aug247131
Sep141100
Oct10290
Nov5250
Dec4550

Snow in Coihueco

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.

Coihueco averages about 4 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Jun 5 to Sep 3 — about 3 months.

July is snowiest, with roughly 1.3 day of snow and an estimated 13 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 24 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJul 23
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr00
May01
Jun14
Jul113
Aug14
Sep02
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Coihueco, 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 5.7 months, ending around April 20. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 89% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 21 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around October 28. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 65% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 15 · 90%Jun 16 · 34%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8812
Feb8911
Mar8218
Apr6436
May4555
Jun3565
Jul4357
Aug4456
Sep5149
Oct5743
Nov7228
Dec8119

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 30 min of light; the shortest, around June 11, 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)
Jan14.26:499:04
Feb13.47:208:44
Mar12.37:488:06
Apr11.18:167:20
May10.18:426:45
Jun9.59:026:33
Jul9.89:016:45
Aug10.68:347:09
Sep11.87:497:35
Oct12.97:048:01
Nov14.06:338:32
Dec14.56:298:58

Sunny days

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

Coihueco averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Nov 12 to Apr 19. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 25 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is June, down near 8 sunny days — about 65% fewer than the February peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 725 daysJun 148 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan25Brilliant
Feb23Brilliant
Mar22Bright
Apr16Bright
May10Mixed
Jun8Mixed
Jul10Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct13Mixed
Nov16Bright
Dec22Bright

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 Coihueco, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in January, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 2% 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 (%)
Jan82162
Feb80181
Mar9281
Apr9910
May10000
Jun10000
Jul10000
Aug10000
Sep10000
Oct10000
Nov9820
Dec9370

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 Coihueco is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJun 18 · 11 km/hMar 5 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May9calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Coihueco

In seasonPeak

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

Coihueco's rainy season runs May–August, 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 Coihueco

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Coihueco 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 Coihueco for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to early April, with a peak score in the second week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 10 · 9.0

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
Jan9.0ideal
Feb8.9ideal
Mar8.2ideal
Apr6.4good
May4.1fair
Jun2.5poor
Jul2.5poor
Aug3.1poor
Sep4.3fair
Oct5.6good
Nov7.2good
Dec8.2ideal

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 Coihueco for hot-weather activities is from late December to early March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 21 · 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 Coihueco, 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 24°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 11°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Coihueco sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 11°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes.

UV index (midday) in Coihueco 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 Coihueco peaks around January 14 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 16 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 9 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highModerateVery highExtremeJan 14UV 12Jun 16UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb11Extreme
Mar9Very high
Apr5Moderate
May3Moderate
Jun2Moderate
Jul3Moderate
Aug3Moderate
Sep5High
Oct8Very high
Nov10Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Coihueco

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
Mar74.5
Apr50
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug2.50
Sep50
Oct7.54.5
Nov8.56
Dec97

Air quality in Coihueco by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Coihueco is worst in April — around 40 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 4.6× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateGoodApr 1539 µg/m³Dec 129 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan14Moderate
Feb25Moderate
Mar30Moderate
Apr40Poor
May27Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct12Moderate
Nov10Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Coihueco is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about September 13 to May 24 (254 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freereliably frost-freeSep 1390%May 2490%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr990
May9311
Jun8530
Jul7731
Aug8231
Sep9115
Oct980
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. Coihueco banks about 952 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around January.

02004006008001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan227
Feb199
Mar164
Apr60
May5
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct29
Nov96
Dec171

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.

Coihueco receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.8 and 8.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Sep 29 to Mar 27. The brightest month is January, averaging about 8.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 1.9 kWh/m² — roughly 78% less than the January peak.

012345678910JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseJan 18.7 kWhJun 191.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan8.6Intense
Feb7.5Intense
Mar5.9Bright
Apr4.0Moderate
May2.5Moderate
Jun1.9Dim
Jul2.2Moderate
Aug3.0Moderate
Sep4.5Bright
Oct6.1Intense
Nov7.8Intense
Dec8.5Intense

Where is Coihueco?

Coihueco sits at 36.6°S, 71.8°W, 257 m above sea level, in Chile. The nearest listed city is Chillán, 24 km away.

Topography around Coihueco

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Coihueco has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 99 m around an average of 257 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 831 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,159 m.

The land around Coihueco is covered by cropland (44%), trees (26%) and grassland (22%) within 3 km, trees (44%) and cropland (36%) within 16 km, and trees (43%) and grassland (32%) within 80 km.

3 km
99 m
16 km
831 m
80 km
3,159 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Chillán 24 km · San Carlos 25 km · Chillán Viejo 27 km · Parral 54 km · Quillón 59 km · Cabrero 68 km · Longaví 75 km · Coelemu 79 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 Coihueco (-36.6279°, -71.8307°, elevation 257 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. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).