Climate and average weather in Parral

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

Best: early January to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Parral typically varies from 4°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -1°C or above 31°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 Parral for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid April and late October to late December.

Hottest
Jan
27°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Jun
269 mm
Driest
Jan
9 mm
Rain / yr
1200 mm
77 wet days
Daylight
9.5–14.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
178 m
36.1°S
Clearest
Jan
17% cloud

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

The hot season lasts 3.7 months, from November 29 to March 21, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Parral is January, with an average high of 27°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.7 months, from May 15 to September 4, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Parral is July, with an average low of 4°C and high of 13°C.

Days typically run about 12°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)
Jan2713
Feb2712
Mar2411
Apr208
May166
Jun135
Jul134
Aug145
Sep176
Oct198
Nov229
Dec2511

Average hourly temperature in Parral

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

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

Parral 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
Jan27° / 13°91.314.28.6
Feb27° / 12°221.713.48.6
Mar24° / 11°222.412.38.8
Apr20° / 765.511.17.2
May16° / 1969.610.14.9
Jun13° / 26913.19.63.4
Jul13° / 21111.49.83.5
Aug14° / 17511.310.64.2
Sep17° / 987.711.85.6
Oct19° / 67712.96.8
Nov22° / 293.413.98.2
Dec25° / 11°262.714.48.7

Chance of rain

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

Parral gets about 1200 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 Apr 28 to Oct 19, peaking in June at about 45% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 26.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 269 mm over about 13 wet days; January is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 16 · 45%Jan 26 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan51
Feb62
Mar82
Apr186
May3110
Jun4313
Jul3711
Aug3511
Sep278
Oct227
Nov123
Dec83

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Parral collects about 1200 mm of rain across 77 wet days — roughly 100 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 269 mm, while January is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec922227619626921117598672926
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan91
Feb222
Mar222
Apr766
May19610
Jun26913
Jul21111
Aug17511
Sep988
Oct677
Nov293
Dec263

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Parral, 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 24 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around April 12. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 90% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 13 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around October 23. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 63% 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 12 · 91%Jun 16 · 36%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan9010
Feb9010
Mar8317
Apr6436
May4555
Jun3763
Jul4456
Aug4654
Sep5248
Oct6040
Nov7525
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 December 17, brings about 14 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around June 18, 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)
Jan14.26:509:03
Feb13.47:218:43
Mar12.37:488:05
Apr11.18:157:20
May10.18:416:46
Jun9.69:016:34
Jul9.89:006:46
Aug10.68:337:10
Sep11.87:487:35
Oct12.97:048:00
Nov13.96:348:31
Dec14.46:308:57

Sunny days

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

Parral 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 8 to Apr 14. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 25 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is June, down near 8 sunny days — about 66% fewer than the February peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 1125 daysJun 148 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan25Brilliant
Feb23Brilliant
Mar22Bright
Apr16Bright
May10Mixed
Jun8Mixed
Jul10Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep12Mixed
Oct13Mixed
Nov17Bright
Dec23Bright

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 Parral, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in February, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 5% 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 (%)
Jan68284
Feb64305
Mar77212
Apr9550
May9910
Jun10000
Jul10000
Aug10000
Sep10000
Oct9820
Nov9460
Dec82170

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJan 1 · 10 km/hApr 27 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May8calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Parral

In seasonPeak

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

Parral'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 Parral

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Parral is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Parral for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to mid April, with a peak score in the third week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 15 · 8.9

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
Jan8.6ideal
Feb8.7ideal
Mar8.7ideal
Apr7.2good
May5.0fair
Jun3.4poor
Jul3.5poor
Aug4.2fair
Sep5.6good
Oct6.8good
Nov8.2ideal
Dec8.7ideal

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 Parral for hot-weather activities is from late November to late March, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 25 · 8.8

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 Parral, 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 27°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 13°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Parral sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 13°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Parral 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 Parral peaks around January 15 at about 13 (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 15UV 13Jun 16UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb11Extreme
Mar9Very high
Apr5High
May3Moderate
Jun2Moderate
Jul3Moderate
Aug4Moderate
Sep5High
Oct8Very high
Nov11Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Parral

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
Mar7.54.5
Apr50
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug30
Sep5.50
Oct7.54.5
Nov8.56
Dec97

Air quality in Parral 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 Parral is worst in May — around 33 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.6× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodMay 1731 µg/m³Dec 99 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan19Moderate
Feb24Moderate
Mar12Good
Apr18Moderate
May33Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct12Good
Nov9Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Parral is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about August 13 to June 30 (322 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freereliably frost-freeAug 1390%Jun 3090%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May970
Jun928
Jul8631
Aug9114
Sep980
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. Parral banks about 1,524 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around January.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan307
Feb267
Mar232
Apr115
May31
Jun0
Jul0
Aug2
Sep38
Oct103
Nov175
Dec255

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.

Parral receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.9 and 8.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Sep 29 to Mar 26. The brightest month is January, averaging about 8.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 2.0 kWh/m² — roughly 77% less than the January peak.

012345678910JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseJan 18.8 kWhJun 191.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan8.6Intense
Feb7.5Intense
Mar5.9Bright
Apr4.0Bright
May2.6Moderate
Jun1.9Dim
Jul2.3Moderate
Aug3.1Moderate
Sep4.6Bright
Oct6.2Intense
Nov7.8Intense
Dec8.6Intense

Where is Parral?

Parral sits at 36.1°S, 71.8°W, 178 m above sea level, in Chile. The nearest listed city is Longaví, 24 km away.

Topography around Parral

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Parral has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 34 m around an average of 168 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 129 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,161 m.

The land around Parral is covered by cropland (42%), grassland (25%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 3 km, cropland (53%) and grassland (27%) within 16 km, and trees (40%), grassland (34%) and cropland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
34 m
16 km
129 m
80 km
3,161 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Longaví 24 km · San Carlos 33 km · Linares 39 km · Cauquenes 49 km · Coihueco 54 km · Chillán 57 km · Chillán Viejo 60 km · San Javier 62 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 Parral (-36.1431°, -71.826°, elevation 178 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).