Climate and average weather in Loncoche

In Loncoche, the summers are warm, 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 Loncoche typically varies from 4°C to 23°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 28°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 Loncoche for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and early December to late December.

Hottest
Feb
23°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Jun
346 mm
Driest
Jan
36 mm
Rain / yr
1831 mm
137 wet days
Daylight
9.2–14.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
114 m
39.4°S
Clearest
Feb
36% cloud

Loncoche is city in Chile.

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

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

The hot season lasts 3.4 months, from December 10 to March 21, with daily high temperatures above 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Loncoche is February, with an average high of 23°C and low of 10°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from May 19 to September 3, with daily high temperatures below 13°C. The coldest month of the year in Loncoche is July, with an average low of 4°C and high of 10°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in February.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2310
Feb2310
Mar209
Apr167
May136
Jun114
Jul104
Aug124
Sep145
Oct166
Nov188
Dec209

Average hourly temperature in Loncoche

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 23°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

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

Loncoche 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
Jan23° / 10°365.114.57.9
Feb23° / 10°404.413.58.1
Mar20° / 687.212.37.0
Apr16° / 12710.5115.0
May13° / 23714.69.93.2
Jun11° / 34618.49.32.0
Jul10° / 28417.69.51.9
Aug12° / 25916.710.52.5
Sep14° / 14813.211.73.6
Oct16° / 12812.2134.6
Nov18° / 849.314.25.8
Dec20° / 737.714.76.9

Chance of rain

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

Loncoche gets about 1831 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 5.9 months, from around Apr 25 to Oct 20, peaking in June at about 62% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 12.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 346 mm over about 18 wet days; January is the driest, with 36 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 25 · 62%Feb 12 · 15%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan175
Feb164
Mar247
Apr3511
May4815
Jun6018
Jul5718
Aug5317
Sep4513
Oct3912
Nov319
Dec248

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Loncoche collects about 1831 mm of rain across 137 wet days — roughly 153 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 346 mm, while January is the driest at just 36 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3640681272373462842591481288473
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan365
Feb404
Mar687
Apr12711
May23715
Jun34618
Jul28418
Aug25917
Sep14813
Oct12812
Nov849
Dec738

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Loncoche, 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 20 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around April 9. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 74% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 10 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around November 19. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 78% 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 13 · 75%Jun 26 · 19%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7129
Feb7426
Mar6040
Apr4060
May2773
Jun2278
Jul2575
Aug2674
Sep3367
Oct3763
Nov4258
Dec5842

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 15, brings about 14 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around June 15, only 9 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan14.56:459:14
Feb13.57:198:51
Mar12.37:518:10
Apr11.08:227:20
May9.98:516:42
Jun9.39:146:28
Jul9.59:126:41
Aug10.58:417:08
Sep11.77:527:37
Oct13.07:048:07
Nov14.26:308:42
Dec14.76:249:10

Sunny days

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

Loncoche averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around Nov 24 to Apr 8. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is June, down near 3 sunny days — about 82% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 818 daysJun 273 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar14Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct7Gloomy
Nov8Gloomy
Dec13Mixed

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 Loncoche, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in January, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% 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 (%)
Jan83151
Feb84151
Mar89110
Apr9730
May9820
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 Loncoche is steady company: average speeds sit near 10 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJan 9 · 11 km/hApr 25 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May10calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep10calm
Oct10calm
Nov10calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Loncoche

In seasonPeak

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

Loncoche'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 Loncoche

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Loncoche 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 Loncoche 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 11 · 8.2

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
Jan7.9ideal
Feb8.1ideal
Mar7.0good
Apr5.1fair
May3.2poor
Jun2.0poor
Jul1.9poor
Aug2.5poor
Sep3.6fair
Oct4.6fair
Nov5.8good
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 Loncoche 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 10 · 6.3

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 Loncoche, 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 23°C), the essentials are light clothes 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, Loncoche sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 10°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 4 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Loncoche

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 64 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
May13Bracing
Jun12Bracing
Jul11Bracing
Aug11Bracing
Sep12Bracing
Oct12Bracing
Nov13Bracing
Dec14Bracing

UV index (midday) in Loncoche 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 Loncoche peaks around December 19 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 17 at about 2 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highModerateLowModerateVery highExtremeDec 19UV 12Jun 17UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb11Extreme
Mar8Very high
Apr5Moderate
May2Moderate
Jun2Low
Jul2Moderate
Aug3Moderate
Sep4Moderate
Oct8Very high
Nov9Very high
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Loncoche

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
Feb8.56
Mar74
Apr4.50
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep4.50
Oct73.5
Nov85.5
Dec97

Air quality in Loncoche 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 Loncoche is worst in March — around 34 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 4.7× the cleanest month (January, 7 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodMar 2033 µg/m³Jan 117 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan7Good
Feb10Good
Mar34Moderate
Apr26Moderate
May13Moderate
Jun9Good
Jul10Good
Aug11Good
Sep11Good
Oct10Good
Nov9Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Loncoche is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about September 4 to May 28 (267 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freereliably frost-freeSep 490%May 2890%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr980
May947
Jun8830
Jul8331
Aug8631
Sep947
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. Loncoche banks about 833 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02004006008001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan200
Feb185
Mar146
Apr48
May3
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct26
Nov80
Dec145

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.

Loncoche receives about 4.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.4 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Sep 28 to Mar 24. The brightest month is January, averaging about 7.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 1.4 kWh/m² — roughly 81% less than the January peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseJan 117.7 kWhJun 231.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan7.6Intense
Feb6.5Intense
Mar4.8Bright
Apr3.1Moderate
May1.9Dim
Jun1.4Dim
Jul1.7Dim
Aug2.4Moderate
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct5.2Bright
Nov6.3Intense
Dec7.4Intense

Where is Loncoche?

Loncoche sits at 39.4°S, 72.6°W, 114 m above sea level, in Chile. The nearest listed city is Villarrica, 36 km away.

Topography around Loncoche

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Loncoche has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 297 m around an average of 142 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 755 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,810 m.

The land around Loncoche is covered by trees (56%) and grassland (27%) within 3 km, trees (72%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and trees (59%) within 80 km.

3 km
297 m
16 km
755 m
80 km
2,810 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Villarrica 36 km · Panguipulli 40 km · Pitrufquén 42 km · Freire 46 km · Teodoro Schmidt 57 km · Pucon 59 km · Padre Las Casas 67 km · Labranza 68 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 Loncoche (-39.3671°, -72.6309°, elevation 114 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. 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).