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Photo: Febe Vanermen, Unsplash.
Valle Nevado in December
sweet spot · one of the best months to go · the sunniest month of the year
The year in Valle Nevado
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- JanJValle Nevado in January: sweet spot
- FebFValle Nevado in February: sweet spot
- MarMValle Nevado in March: ok, busy
- AprAValle Nevado in April: ok
- MayMValle Nevado in May: avoid
- JunJValle Nevado in June: avoid
- JulJValle Nevado in July: sweet spot, busy
- AugAValle Nevado in August: sweet spot, busy
- SepSValle Nevado in September: sweet spot, busy
- OctOValle Nevado in October: avoid
- NovNValle Nevado in November: ok
- DecDValle Nevado in December: sweet spot
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- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 12°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 3°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 12°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 7 · 38 mm |
| Humidity | 54% |
| Sunshine | 13.7 h/day |
| Daylight | 14.3 h/day |
| Crowds | 80 / 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 Valle Nevado, the resort village: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in December
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Valle Nevado in pictures
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José Joaquín Cortes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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ahmed IBN-LAHOUCINE, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Corsario CL, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 3°C.
- A packable rain jacket for the 7 or so rainy days.
- Sun protection: about 14 hours of sunshine a day.
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. 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.
On arrival in Valle Nevado: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
December elsewhere
In December from
The other months at Valle Nevado
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