Climate and average weather in Puerto Aysén

In Puerto Aysén, the summers are mild, wet, and mostly cloudy and the winters are cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid January to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Puerto Aysén typically varies from -2°C to 15°C, and is rarely below -8°C or above 23°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Puerto Aysén for warm-weather activities is from mid January to early March.

Hottest
Feb
15°
Coldest
Jul
-2°
Wettest
Aug
366 mm
Driest
Feb
185 mm
Rain / yr
3513 mm
245 wet days
Daylight
8.5–15.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
9 m
45.4°S
Clearest
Feb
72% cloud

Puerto Aysén is place in Aysén, Aysén.

Density
1,985/km²
people per km²

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

Puerto Aysén 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 mid January to early March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from November 30 to March 28, with daily high temperatures above 12°C. The hottest month of the year in Puerto Aysén is February, with an average high of 15°C and low of 7°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from May 25 to August 31, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Puerto Aysén is July, with an average low of -2°C and high of 3°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 8°C) in February.

-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan157
Feb157
Mar136
Apr103
May71
Jun3-1
Jul3-2
Aug4-1
Sep60
Oct81
Nov113
Dec135

How hot and cold Puerto Aysén 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 -4°C (around July 3), with roughly 169 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in July.

-5°10°15°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan151557
Feb151567
Mar131346
Apr101023
May7701
Jun33-3-1
Jul33-3-2
Aug44-3-1
Sep66-20
Oct8801
Nov111113
Dec131345

Average hourly temperature in Puerto Aysén

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 15°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near -2°C.

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

Puerto Aysén 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
Jan15° / 24519.70.715.13.4
Feb15° / 18515.30.413.93.8
Mar13° / 244190.912.42.9
Apr10° / 29219.54.410.81.7
May / 33321.38.59.30.5
Jun / -1°36421.716.38.60.0
Jul / -2°33621.517.68.90.0
Aug / -1°36622.918.910.10.0
Sep / 26421.113.711.70.4
Oct / 3022110.713.31.1
Nov11° / 29120.15.414.71.9
Dec13° / 29021.42.315.42.6

Chance of rain

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

Puerto Aysén gets about 3513 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 5.4 months, from around Apr 16 to Sep 26, peaking in August at about 74% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 18.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 366 mm over about 23 wet days; February is the driest, with 185 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 10 · 74%Feb 18 · 54%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6320
Feb5615
Mar6119
Apr6620
May6921
Jun7122
Jul7122
Aug7323
Sep7121
Oct6721
Nov6620
Dec7021

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Puerto Aysén collects about 3513 mm of rain across 245 wet days — roughly 293 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 366 mm, while February is the driest at just 185 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec245185244292333364336366264302291290
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan245201
Feb185150
Mar244191
Apr292204
May333219
Jun3642216
Jul3362218
Aug3662319
Sep2642114
Oct3022111
Nov291205
Dec290212

Snow in Puerto Aysén

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.

Puerto Aysén averages about 100 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Mar 5 to Jan 17 — about 10.5 months.

August is snowiest, with roughly 18 days of snow and an estimated 218 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 921 cm of snow.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonAug 9
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan11
Feb01
Mar14
Apr427
May979
Jun16163
Jul18175
Aug19218
Sep14120
Oct1189
Nov534
Dec210

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Puerto Aysén, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around January 2 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around April 11. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 25% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 12 and lasts for 4.2 months, ending around August 18. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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 20 · 26%Jun 2 · 10%clearmostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2080
Feb2575
Mar2179
Apr1585
May1090
Jun1288
Jul1486
Aug1585
Sep1585
Oct1783
Nov1486
Dec1486

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 16, brings about 15 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around June 16, only 8 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 7 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan15.16:279:33
Feb13.97:089:03
Mar12.47:498:12
Apr10.88:297:13
May9.39:076:27
Jun8.69:356:07
Jul8.99:316:22
Aug10.18:536:57
Sep11.77:547:36
Oct13.36:578:15
Nov14.76:148:58
Dec15.46:039:31

Sunny days

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

Puerto Aysén averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 6 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.2 months, from around Jan 5 to Apr 12. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 5 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is May, down near 2 sunny days — about 65% fewer than the February peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedFeb 216 daysMay 182 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

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 Puerto Aysén, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in January, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb991
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

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 Puerto Aysén is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeDec 20 · 7 km/hJul 16 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Puerto Aysén

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Puerto Aysén 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 Puerto Aysén for general outdoor tourist activities is from early January to mid March, with a peak score in the third week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 15 · 3.9

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
Jan3.4poor
Feb3.8fair
Mar2.9poor
Apr1.7poor
May0.5poor
Jun0.0poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.0poor
Sep0.4poor
Oct1.1poor
Nov2.0poor
Dec2.6poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Puerto Aysén 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 Puerto Aysén, 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 15°C), the essentials are a warm layer and rain gear. In the cold season around July (highs near 3°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Puerto Aysén sees daytime highs around 15°C and nights near 7°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: a warm layer. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Puerto Aysén 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 Puerto Aysén peaks around January 12 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 19 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeModerateLowModerateVery highExtremeJan 12UV 11Jun 19UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb10Extreme
Mar6High
Apr4Moderate
May2Moderate
Jun1Low
Jul2Low
Aug2Moderate
Sep4Moderate
Oct7Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Puerto Aysén

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 9.5 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)
Jan9.57
Feb8.55.5
Mar6.52
Apr3.50
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep4.50
Oct73.5
Nov84.5
Dec9.56.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Puerto Aysén typically lasts about 252 days, from around September 16 to May 25 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from November 16 to April 7.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasongrowing seasonSep 1650%Nov 1690%Apr 790%May 2550%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar980
Apr8626
May6231
Jun3530
Jul3131
Aug3531
Sep4930
Oct7131
Nov8916
Dec980

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. Puerto Aysén banks about 56 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan23
Feb30
Mar3
Apr0
May0
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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.

Puerto Aysén receives about 3.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.9 and 5.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Sep 20 to Mar 19. The brightest month is December, averaging about 5.0 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 0.9 kWh/m² — roughly 81% less than the December peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightDec 85.1 kWhJun 190.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb4.5Bright
Mar3.1Moderate
Apr1.9Dim
May1.1Dim
Jun0.9Dim
Jul1.1Dim
Aug1.7Dim
Sep2.8Moderate
Oct4.1Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Puerto Aysén?

Puerto Aysén sits at 45.4°S, 72.7°W, 9 m above sea level, in Chile. The nearest listed city is Coyhaique, 52 km away.

QuellónEsquelLas HerasCastroEl BolsónPico TruncadoAncud

Topography around Puerto Aysén

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Puerto Aysén has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 892 m around an average of 47 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,610 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,254 m.

The land around Puerto Aysén is covered by trees (48%) and grassland (35%) within 3 km, trees (73%) within 16 km, and trees (61%) within 80 km.

3 km
892 m
16 km
1,610 m
80 km
2,254 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainsnow and icewater
Nearby: Coyhaique 52 km · Quellón 265 km · Esquel 298 km · Las Heras 317 km · Castro 337 km · El Bolsón 394 km · Pico Truncado 397 km · Ancud 403 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 Puerto Aysén (-45.403°, -72.6918°, elevation 9 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).