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Best time to visit Torres del Paine
Chile · Latin America
All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.
The year in Torres del Paine
Tap a month for its page
- JanJTorres del Paine in January: ok, busy
- FebFTorres del Paine in February: sweet spot, busy
- MarMTorres del Paine in March: ok, busy
- AprATorres del Paine in April: avoid
- MayMTorres del Paine in May: avoid
- JunJTorres del Paine in June: avoid
- JulJTorres del Paine in July: avoid
- AugATorres del Paine in August: avoid
- SepSTorres del Paine in September: ok
- OctOTorres del Paine in October: ok
- NovNTorres del Paine in November: ok, busy
- DecDTorres del Paine in December: ok, busy
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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Things to do in Torres del Paine
- Glacier Grey The Glacier Grey can be seen via a short hike out onto a sandbar from Guardería Grey, from the John Gardner Pass, or from Refugio Grey on the "W".
- Cerro Benítez Mountain in Chile
- Lago Sarmiento A large pretty lake with distinctive white banks, a result of calcium deposits.
- Monte Balmaceda Mountain in Chile
- Cerro Tenerife In the Chilean Patagonia, resembles the Teide
Tours and tickets in Torres del Paine
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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Torres del Paine National Park), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.
Month by month
No fare history for this route yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only — the price column will fill in as the scanner collects.
| Month | Max °C | Rain days | Humidity | Sun h/day | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 15° | 18d | 71% | 10.4h | okbusy | busier than usual |
| Feb | 15° | 14d | 73% | 9.3h | sweet spot busy | busier than usual |
| Mar | 13° | 16d | 76% | 7.6h | okbusy | busier than usual |
| Apr | 10° | 14d | 80% | 5.9h | avoid | 10C max, 14 rainy days |
| May | 6° | 10d | 85% | 4.6h | avoid | 6C max, 10 rainy days |
| Jun | 3° | 11d | 86% | 4.0h | avoid | bitter cold: 3C daily max |
| Jul | 2° | 10d | 84% | 4.6h | avoid | bitter cold: 2C daily max |
| Aug | 5° | 10d | 81% | 5.9h | avoid | bitter cold: 5C daily max |
| Sep | 8° | 12d | 76% | 7.7h | ok | 8C max, 12 rainy days |
| Oct | 10° | 15d | 72% | 8.9h | ok | 10C max, 15 rainy days |
| Nov | 13° | 14d | 71% | 10.7h | okbusy | busier than usual |
| Dec | 14° | 15d | 71% | 10.8h | okbusy | busier than usual |
Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.
Weather read at Puerto Natales, 6 km from the airport (PNT): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.
How busy it gets
Then and now
Torres del Paine's February days now average 15.0°C, 1.8°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 7 of 12 months are clearly warmer.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981–90 | 13.2° | 13.2° | 12.0° | 9.0° | 5.4° | 2.7° | 2.1° | 3.6° | 6.2° | 9.1° | 10.9° | 12.6° |
| 2017–26 | 14.7° | 15.0° | 12.7° | 9.9° | 6.4° | 3.1° | 2.3° | 5.0° | 7.7° | 10.4° | 12.5° | 13.9° |
| Change | +1.5° | +1.8° | +0.7° | +0.9° | +1.0° | +0.5° | +0.3° | +1.4° | +1.5° | +1.2° | +1.6° | +1.3° |
The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.
Getting there
Fly into Punta Arenas (PUQ), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Punta Arenas.
| Punta Arenas (PUQ) | the drive is not measured yet |
|---|---|
| Puerto Natales (PNT) | the drive is not measured yet |
The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.
How far Torres del Paine is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.
- from Santiago
- from Buenos Aires
- from Sao Paulo
- from Lima
- from Bogota
- from Cape Town
- from Auckland
- from Mexico City
Open in Rome2rio for every way from to Torres del Paine, flying or not.
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. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution. US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Chile: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
Being there
On arrival
- Paying — Cards are accepted in chain stores and most independent shops in big cities; if the card machine asks about cuotas, choose sin cuotas.
- UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
- Tipping — About 10% in restaurants is customary, handed to the waiter; leaving nothing is seen as rude unless service was poor.
Getting around Torres del Paine
- Apps — Rides: Cabify, DiDi, inDrive, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp.
Trail status can be accessed via the informe diario (Spanish only) on the official park website. The main trails at lower elevations are generally open year-round. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Torres del Paine National Park, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Help
- Emergency — police 133 · ambulance 131 · fire 132.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.
- Hospitals near Torres del Painea search on Google Maps
- Pharmacies near Torres del Painea search on Google Maps
Your embassy — : how to reach your embassy or consulate abroad. A guess from your city, : a city is not a passport.
Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.
Sources (17)
- gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/chile/getting-help
- uber.com/global/en/cities/santiago
- web.didiglobal.com/cl
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabify
- indrive.com/es-cl/city-rides
- red.cl/tarifas-y-recargas/conoce-las-tarifas
- mtt.gob.cl/comienza-el-pago-con-tarjetas-de-credito-debito-y-prepago-en-metro-y-efe-nos
- en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Santiago
- en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Chile
- soax.com/research/most-popular-messaging-apps
- developers.google.com/maps/coverage
- apple.com/ios/feature-availability
- chile.travel/en/destinations/rapa-nui-easter-island
- chile.travel/en/attractions/hanga-roa
- rapanuinationalpark.com/en
- pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2286608
- rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/AnnualReport/PDFs/09PAYMENT290526C6588B796E664822A2BD0DEB6452CAD4.PDF
Torres del Paine in pictures
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Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What Torres del Paine is like
Torres del Paine is a national park in Chilean Patagonia. It is in the southern tiers of the Andes and features mountains, lakes, and glaciers. The rocky Torres del Paine (meaning "Blue Towers" in a mixture of Spanish and local indigenous languages) give the park its name. More on Wikivoyage
- Worth seeing
- Torres del Paine. The lookout, Base de las Torres, is a 45-minute hike from Campamento Torres Valle Francés. Accessed from Campamento Italiano, a three-hour hike one way. More on Wikivoyage
- Worth doing
- Torres del Paine is world-renowned for trekking, with routes ranging from short day walks to multiday circuits. Detailed stage descriptions can be found in Hiking in Torres del Paine. More on Wikivoyage
- Getting in
- Warning: The nearest guaranteed gas/petrol stations are in Puerto Natales. There are four main entrances (porterías) to the park. More on Wikivoyage
- Staying safe
- Foxes have been known to steal food and belongings, and to bite people, particularly small children. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Torres del Paine National Park, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.
Around Torres del Paine
Also in Chile
Nearby
- Ushuaia Argentina · 442 km
- Buenos Aires Argentina · 2,213 km
- Montevideo Uruguay · 2,278 km
- Iguazu Falls Argentina · 3,275 km
Kind of place
Torres del Paine is in Chile, Latin America. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.
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