Climate and average weather in Frutillar

In Frutillar, the summers are mild, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are cool and mostly cloudy.

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Frutillar typically varies from 5°C to 20°C, and is rarely below 0°C or above 25°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 Frutillar for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and early December to late December.

Hottest
Feb
20°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Jun
234 mm
Driest
Jan
55 mm
Rain / yr
1567 mm
163 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
151 m
41.1°S
Clearest
Feb
52% cloud

Frutillar is city in Chile.

Density
2,295/km²
people per km²
Founded
1856

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

Frutillar 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 Frutillar, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.5 months, from December 8 to March 23, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Frutillar is February, with an average high of 20°C and low of 11°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from May 24 to September 4, with daily high temperatures below 12°C. The coldest month of the year in Frutillar is July, with an average low of 5°C and high of 10°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 9°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2011
Feb2011
Mar1810
Apr158
May137
Jun116
Jul105
Aug115
Sep136
Oct157
Nov168
Dec1810

Average hourly temperature in Frutillar

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 20°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

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

Frutillar 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
Jan20° / 11°557.814.66.7
Feb20° / 11°58713.66.8
Mar18° / 10°829.812.36.0
Apr15° / 12312.710.94.4
May13° / 19016.49.73.0
Jun11° / 23419.39.12.0
Jul10° / 21218.49.31.9
Aug11° / 20218.910.42.2
Sep13° / 12814.811.73.0
Oct15° / 11814.813.13.8
Nov16° / 8912.114.34.7
Dec18° / 10°7910.514.95.8

Chance of rain

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

Frutillar gets about 1567 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 6.2 months, from around Apr 30 to Nov 4, peaking in June at about 64% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 19.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 234 mm over about 19 wet days; January is the driest, with 55 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 27 · 64%Jan 19 · 23%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb257
Mar3210
Apr4213
May5316
Jun6319
Jul6118
Aug6019
Sep5115
Oct4715
Nov4012
Dec3411

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Frutillar collects about 1567 mm of rain across 163 wet days — roughly 131 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 234 mm, while January is the driest at just 55 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec5558821231902342122021281188979
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan558
Feb587
Mar8210
Apr12313
May19016
Jun23419
Jul21218
Aug20219
Sep12815
Oct11815
Nov8912
Dec7911

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Frutillar, 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 December 5 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around April 15. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 55% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 16 and lasts for 7.7 months, ending around December 4. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 76% 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 8 · 57%Jun 29 · 22%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5149
Feb5545
Mar4753
Apr3565
May2575
Jun2476
Jul2476
Aug2476
Sep2872
Oct2872
Nov3070
Dec3565

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 17, brings about 15 hours of light; the shortest, around June 18, only 9 hours — a swing of roughly 6 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan14.66:429:21
Feb13.67:188:56
Mar12.37:528:12
Apr10.98:257:20
May9.78:576:40
Jun9.19:216:24
Jul9.39:196:37
Aug10.48:467:07
Sep11.77:557:38
Oct13.17:048:11
Nov14.36:278:48
Dec14.96:209:17

Sunny days

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

Frutillar averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Dec 5 to Apr 13. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 2 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the February peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedFeb 911 daysJun 92 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr5Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec6Gloomy

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 Frutillar, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in February, 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 (%)
Jan82171
Feb81172
Mar87130
Apr9640
May9910
Jun10000
Jul10000
Aug10000
Sep10000
Oct10000
Nov9910
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 Frutillar is steady company: average speeds sit near 14 km/hlight breeze — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJan 12 · 15 km/hApr 26 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Hazard calendar for Frutillar

In seasonPeak

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

Frutillar'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 Frutillar

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Frutillar 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 Frutillar for general outdoor tourist activities is from early December to late March, with a peak score in the second week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 10 · 6.9

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
Mar6.0good
Apr4.4fair
May3.0poor
Jun2.0poor
Jul1.9poor
Aug2.2poor
Sep3.0poor
Oct3.8fair
Nov4.8fair
Dec5.8good

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 Frutillar for hot-weather activities is from early January to early March, with a peak score in the second week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 9 · 3.8

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 Frutillar, 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 20°C), the essentials are 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, Frutillar sees daytime highs around 20°C and nights near 11°C. Worth packing: sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Frutillar

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 58 km away) is warmest in January at about 16°C and coldest in August near 10°C.

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

8°10°12°14°16°18°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcool
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan16Cool
Feb16Cool
Mar15Bracing
Apr13Bracing
May11Bracing
Jun11Bracing
Jul11Bracing
Aug10Bracing
Sep11Bracing
Oct12Bracing
Nov13Bracing
Dec15Bracing

UV index (midday) in Frutillar 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 Frutillar peaks around December 23 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 18 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highModerateLowModerateHighVery highExtremeDec 23UV 12Jun 18UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb11Extreme
Mar7Very high
Apr4Moderate
May2Moderate
Jun1Low
Jul2Low
Aug2Moderate
Sep4Moderate
Oct7High
Nov9Very high
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Frutillar

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 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)
Jan96.5
Feb86
Mar6.53
Apr40
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep4.50
Oct6.52.5
Nov85
Dec97
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Frutillar is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about July 25 to July 19 (360 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freereliably frost-freeJul 2590%Jul 1990%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May980
Jun950
Jul9113
Aug940
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. Frutillar banks about 741 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)
Jan172
Feb159
Mar130
Apr51
May8
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct22
Nov71
Dec128

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.

Frutillar receives about 3.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.2 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Sep 28 to Mar 25. The brightest month is January, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

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

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseJan 136.8 kWhJun 231.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.8Intense
Feb5.9Bright
Mar4.3Bright
Apr2.7Moderate
May1.7Dim
Jun1.2Dim
Jul1.5Dim
Aug2.1Moderate
Sep3.4Moderate
Oct4.6Bright
Nov5.7Bright
Dec6.5Intense

Where is Frutillar?

Frutillar sits at 41.1°S, 73.1°W, 151 m above sea level, in Chile. The nearest listed city is Llanquihue, 16 km away.

Topography around Frutillar

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Frutillar has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 134 m around an average of 140 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 178 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,668 m.

The land around Frutillar is covered by grassland (58%) and trees (20%) within 3 km, grassland (45%), trees (22%) and water (21%) within 16 km, and trees (50%) and grassland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
134 m
16 km
178 m
80 km
2,668 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Llanquihue 16 km · Puerto Varas 23 km · Purranque 25 km · Puerto Montt 40 km · Osorno 61 km · Maullín 71 km · Calbuco 73 km · Río Bueno 88 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 Frutillar (-41.1216°, -73.0581°, elevation 151 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).