Weekly note

Punta Arenas in September

ok · worth considering · the driest month of the year

The year in Punta Arenas

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  1. Punta Arenas in January: ok, busy
  2. Punta Arenas in February: sweet spot, busy
  3. Punta Arenas in March: ok
  4. Punta Arenas in April: ok
  5. Punta Arenas in May: avoid
  6. Punta Arenas in June: avoid
  7. Punta Arenas in July: avoid
  8. Punta Arenas in August: avoid
  9. Punta Arenas in September: ok
  10. Punta Arenas in October: ok
  11. Punta Arenas in November: ok, busy
  12. Punta Arenas in December: ok, busy
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September at Punta Arenas is 7°C by day and 2°C at night, with 8 rainy days and about 7 hours of sun a day. 7C max, 8 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high7°C
Nightly low2°C
Feels like, afternoon2°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more8 · 44 mm
Humidity75%
Sunshine7.4 h/day
Daylight11.7 h/day
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the Plaza de Armas, 18 km from the airport (PUQ): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

September: quiet. Busiest from November to February; quietest from April to September.

Public holidays in September

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Punta Arenas in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 2°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 8 or so rainy days.
  • Humidity averages 75%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type C and L plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Chilean peso. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Chile: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Punta Arenas: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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