Climate and average weather in El Quisco

In El Quisco, the weather is mild, fairly dry, and clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near mild levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around June.

Best: early January to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in El Quisco typically varies from 10°C to 17°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 18°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit El Quisco for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid April and late November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
17°
Coldest
Jul
10°
Wettest
Jun
129 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
404 mm
33 wet days
Daylight
9.8–14.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
44 m
33.4°S
Clearest
Jan
24% cloud

El Quisco 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 mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in El Quisco 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 15°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 10°C and high of 13°C.

Days typically run about 2°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1715
Feb1715
Mar1615
Apr1513
May1412
Jun1311
Jul1310
Aug1310
Sep1311
Oct1311
Nov1413
Dec1514

Average hourly temperature in El Quisco

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 10°C.

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

El Quisco 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
Jan17° / 15°00.1147.0
Feb17° / 15°20.213.27.1
Mar16° / 15°30.712.36.7
Apr15° / 13°182.111.25.7
May14° / 12°675.110.34.5
Jun13° / 11°1297.69.83.9
Jul13° / 10°726.2103.8
Aug13° / 10°635.210.83.9
Sep13° / 11°29311.84.3
Oct13° / 11°14212.84.7
Nov14° / 13°40.713.75.5
Dec15° / 14°30.414.26.3

Chance of rain

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

El Quisco gets about 404 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.7 months, from around Apr 27 to Sep 16, peaking in June at about 28% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 9.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 129 mm over about 8 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetJun 17 · 28%Jan 9 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar21
Apr72
May165
Jun258
Jul206
Aug175
Sep103
Oct62
Nov21
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, El Quisco collects about 404 mm of rain across 33 wet days — roughly 34 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 129 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 66% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec02318671297263291443
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb20
Mar31
Apr182
May675
Jun1298
Jul726
Aug635
Sep293
Oct142
Nov41
Dec30

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In El Quisco, 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 17 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around April 13. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 14 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around October 16. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 57% 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 6 · 87%Jun 19 · 41%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8614
Feb8614
Mar8218
Apr6733
May4753
Jun4357
Jul5149
Aug5446
Sep6040
Oct6733
Nov7921
Dec8416

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 10, 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)
Jan14.06:568:56
Feb13.27:248:38
Mar12.37:498:04
Apr11.28:127:22
May10.38:356:51
Jun9.88:536:41
Jul10.08:536:52
Aug10.88:287:13
Sep11.87:477:35
Oct12.87:067:57
Nov13.76:398:25
Dec14.26:378:49

Sunny days

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

El Quisco averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 9 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Oct 16 to Apr 13. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is June, down near 9 sunny days — about 58% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 523 daysJun 209 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan23Bright
Feb20Bright
Mar21Bright
Apr16Bright
May10Mixed
Jun9Mixed
Jul12Mixed
Aug12Mixed
Sep14Mixed
Oct17Bright
Nov20Bright
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 El Quisco, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in February, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 6% 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 (%)
Jan20763
Feb14806
Mar27712
Apr70300
May9190
Jun9730
Jul10000
Aug10000
Sep10000
Oct10000
Nov9460
Dec61390

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 El Quisco is typically light breeze, near 17 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.2 months, from around Aug 8 to Jan 12. The windiest month is November, averaging about 19 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jan 13 to Aug 7, with May the calmest month at about 15 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyNov 17 · 20 km/hMay 13 · 15 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan17light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar16light breeze
Apr16light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun17light breeze
Jul17light breeze
Aug17light breeze
Sep18light breeze
Oct19light breeze
Nov19light breeze
Dec18light breeze

Best time to visit El Quisco

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early April, El Quisco 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 El Quisco for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to mid April, with a peak score in the first week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 1 · 7.2

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
Jan7.0good
Feb7.1good
Mar6.7good
Apr5.6good
May4.6fair
Jun3.9fair
Jul3.8fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep4.3fair
Oct4.7fair
Nov5.5good
Dec6.3good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. El Quisco 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 El Quisco, 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.

El Quisco packs about the same all year — highs hold near 17°C. Across the year the things worth having are a warm layer and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, El Quisco sees daytime highs around 17°C and nights near 15°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: a warm layer.

Sea temperature near El Quisco

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 17 km away) is warmest in February at about 17°C and coldest in August near 13°C.

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

12°14°16°18°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcool
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan17Cool
Feb17Cool
Mar17Cool
Apr15Cool
May14Bracing
Jun14Bracing
Jul13Bracing
Aug13Bracing
Sep13Bracing
Oct13Bracing
Nov14Bracing
Dec15Cool

UV index (midday) in El Quisco 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 El Quisco peaks around January 17 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 18 at about 3 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeModerateHighVery highExtremeJan 17UV 13Jun 18UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar10Extreme
Apr5High
May3Moderate
Jun3Moderate
Jul3Moderate
Aug4Moderate
Sep6High
Oct9Very high
Nov11Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in El Quisco

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
Mar7.55
Apr50
May2.50
Jun00
Jul1.50
Aug40
Sep61.5
Oct7.55
Nov8.56
Dec97
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

El Quisco 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. El Quisco banks about 1,219 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

05001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan178
Feb166
Mar168
Apr121
May87
Jun58
Jul35
Aug36
Sep50
Oct74
Nov103
Dec143

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.

El Quisco receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.5 and 8.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Sep 24 to Mar 25. The brightest month is December, averaging about 8.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 2.5 kWh/m² — roughly 72% less than the December peak.

012345678910JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 288.9 kWhJun 192.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan8.7Intense
Feb7.7Intense
Mar6.3Intense
Apr4.5Bright
May3.1Moderate
Jun2.5Moderate
Jul2.9Moderate
Aug3.8Moderate
Sep5.3Bright
Oct6.9Intense
Nov8.2Intense
Dec8.8Intense

Where is El Quisco?

El Quisco sits at 33.4°S, 71.7°W, 44 m above sea level, in Chile. The nearest listed city is Cartagena, 19 km away.

Topography around El Quisco

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around El Quisco has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 175 m around an average of 40 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 392 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,185 m.

The land around El Quisco is covered by water (42%), artificial surfaces (27%) and trees (21%) within 3 km, water (61%) within 16 km, and water (35%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
175 m
16 km
392 m
80 km
2,185 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Cartagena 19 km · San Antonio 23 km · Casablanca 28 km · Placilla 34 km · Valparaiso 41 km · Vina del Mar 44 km · Quilpué 45 km · Villa Alemana 49 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 El Quisco (-33.3977°, -71.6939°, elevation 44 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).