Climate and average weather in Panguipulli

In Panguipulli, the summers are mild, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Panguipulli typically varies from 2°C to 21°C, and is rarely below -3°C or above 27°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 Panguipulli for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and early December to late December.

Hottest
Feb
21°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Jun
507 mm
Driest
Feb
87 mm
Rain / yr
2999 mm
168 wet days
Daylight
9.2–14.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
140 m
39.6°S
Clearest
Feb
43% cloud

Panguipulli is city in Valdivia Province, Chile.

Density
6,207/km²
people per km²
Founded
1946

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

Panguipulli 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 Panguipulli, 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 8 to March 25, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Panguipulli is February, with an average high of 21°C and low of 10°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from May 26 to September 1, with daily high temperatures below 10°C. The coldest month of the year in Panguipulli is July, with an average low of 2°C and high of 8°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in February.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2010
Feb2110
Mar189
Apr156
May115
Jun83
Jul82
Aug92
Sep113
Oct145
Nov167
Dec188

How hot and cold Panguipulli 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 16), with roughly 46 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)
Jan2020910
Feb2121910
Mar181889
Apr151556
May111135
Jun8813
Jul8802
Aug9902
Sep111113
Oct141435
Nov161657
Dec181878

Average hourly temperature in Panguipulli

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 21°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

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

Panguipulli 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
Jan20° / 10°958.1014.56.8
Feb21° / 10°877.2013.67.0
Mar18° / 13710.1012.36.1
Apr15° / 23113.20.1114.0
May11° / 36016.71.29.82.4
Jun / 50720.64.89.31.1
Jul / 42119.27.29.50.9
Aug / 38919.26.510.41.4
Sep11° / 23315.13.211.72.5
Oct14° / 21715.21.513.13.5
Nov16° / 16912.90.314.24.5
Dec18° / 15410.9014.85.9

Chance of rain

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

Panguipulli gets about 2999 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 6.4 months, from around Apr 24 to Nov 3, peaking in June at about 69% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 18.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 507 mm over about 21 wet days; February is the driest, with 87 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 21 · 69%Feb 18 · 24%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan278
Feb267
Mar3310
Apr4413
May5417
Jun6721
Jul6319
Aug6019
Sep5215
Oct4815
Nov4313
Dec3511

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Panguipulli collects about 2999 mm of rain across 168 wet days — roughly 250 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 507 mm, while February is the driest at just 87 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250300350400450500550600JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec9587137231360507421389233217169154
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan9580
Feb8770
Mar137100
Apr231130
May360171
Jun507215
Jul421197
Aug389197
Sep233153
Oct217152
Nov169130
Dec154110

Snow in Panguipulli

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.

Panguipulli averages about 25 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly May 8 to Nov 11 — about 6.2 months.

August is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 37 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 136 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonAug 5
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr00
May17
Jun527
Jul745
Aug737
Sep315
Oct25
Nov01
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Panguipulli, 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 22 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around April 10. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 64% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 11 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around November 21. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 81% 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 11 · 66%Jun 28 · 17%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6139
Feb6436
Mar5347
Apr3763
May2575
Jun1981
Jul2278
Aug2476
Sep2971
Oct3268
Nov3664
Dec5050

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 48 min of light; the shortest, around June 12, 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)
Jan14.56:439:14
Feb13.67:178:51
Mar12.37:498:09
Apr11.08:217:18
May9.88:516:40
Jun9.39:136:26
Jul9.59:116:39
Aug10.48:417:06
Sep11.77:517:36
Oct13.17:028:06
Nov14.26:288:41
Dec14.86:229:09

Sunny days

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

Panguipulli averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around Nov 26 to Apr 8. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 15 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is June, down near 3 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the February peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightFeb 816 daysJun 243 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb14Bright
Mar12Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct7Gloomy
Nov7Gloomy
Dec11Mixed

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 Panguipulli, 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
Feb80182
Mar89100
Apr9910
May10000
Jun10000
Jul10000
Aug10000
Sep10000
Oct10000
Nov9910
Dec9460

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 Panguipulli is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJun 5 · 7 km/hApr 19 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Panguipulli

In seasonPeak

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

Panguipulli's rainy season runs April–September, 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 Panguipulli

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 14 · 7.1

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
Jan6.8good
Feb7.0good
Mar6.0good
Apr4.0fair
May2.4poor
Jun1.1poor
Jul0.9poor
Aug1.4poor
Sep2.5poor
Oct3.5fair
Nov4.5fair
Dec5.9good

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 12 · 4.2

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 Panguipulli, 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 21°C), the essentials are sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 8°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Panguipulli sees daytime highs around 21°C and nights near 10°C. Pack sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Panguipulli 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 Panguipulli peaks around December 20 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 20UV 12Jun 17UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb11Extreme
Mar8Very high
Apr4Moderate
May2Moderate
Jun2Low
Jul2Moderate
Aug3Moderate
Sep5Moderate
Oct8Very high
Nov9Very high
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Panguipulli

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 9.5 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
Apr40
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep4.50
Oct74
Nov8.55.5
Dec9.57
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Panguipulli is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about September 23 to May 22 (242 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freereliably frost-freeSep 2390%May 2290%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr990
May9312
Jun8230
Jul7131
Aug7331
Sep8523
Oct960
Nov990
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. Panguipulli banks about 560 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

0200400600JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan154
Feb146
Mar109
Apr18
May0
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct0
Nov36
Dec97

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.

Panguipulli receives about 4.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.2 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Sep 27 to Mar 25. The brightest month is January, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 1.3 kWh/m² — roughly 82% less than the January peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseJan 127.3 kWhJun 231.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan7.2Intense
Feb6.2Intense
Mar4.5Bright
Apr2.9Moderate
May1.8Dim
Jun1.2Dim
Jul1.5Dim
Aug2.2Moderate
Sep3.5Moderate
Oct4.8Bright
Nov5.9Bright
Dec6.9Intense

Where is Panguipulli?

Panguipulli sits at 39.6°S, 72.3°W, 140 m above sea level, in Chile. The nearest listed city is Loncoche, 40 km away.

Topography around Panguipulli

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Panguipulli has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 162 m around an average of 220 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,262 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,727 m.

The land around Panguipulli is covered by grassland (49%) and trees (27%) within 3 km, trees (48%) and grassland (31%) within 16 km, and trees (69%) within 80 km.

3 km
162 m
16 km
1,262 m
80 km
3,727 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Loncoche 40 km · Villarrica 41 km · Pucon 52 km · Paillaco 66 km · Pitrufquén 78 km · Las Animas 78 km · Valdivia 80 km · Freire 81 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 Panguipulli (-39.6435°, -72.3327°, elevation 140 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).