According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Chile is March to May and September to November. Plan 10–14 days.
Best months for Chile
- Best months
- March to May and September to November
- How long to stay
- 10–14 days
- Continent
- South America
What Chile is best for
Dramatic landscapes spanning Atacama salt flats, Patagonian glaciers, Torres del Paine trails, and scenic Carretera Austral drives.
- Prices
- € · cheaper than in Slovakia
Weather in Chile by month
Monthly averages around Santiago; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about 22 °C | little rain (6 mm) |
| February | about 21 °C | little rain (9 mm) |
| March best | about 20 °C | little rain (9 mm) |
| April best | about 16 °C | little rain (12 mm) |
| May best | about 12 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| June | about 9 °C | some rain (63 mm) |
| July | about 8 °C | some rain (45 mm) |
| August | about 10 °C | some rain (39 mm) |
| September best | about 12 °C | little rain (15 mm) |
| October best | about 15 °C | little rain (12 mm) |
| November best | about 18 °C | little rain (9 mm) |
| December | about 20 °C | little rain (6 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Chile
- Capital
- Santiago
- Language
- Spanish
- Currency
- Chilean Peso (CLP)
- Time
- UTC−4, UTC−3 in summer (most of the country)
- Plugs
- Type C, L · 220 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +56
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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