Iquique, Chile Climate
The warmest month is February, with an average high of 27°C; the coldest is August, with an average low of 11°C. A normal year brings 6 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Sep 24
- Normal high
- 22°C
- Normal low
- 12°C
- Reanalysis high
- 24°Cin 2013
- Reanalysis low
- 10°Cin 2007
- Chance of a wet day
- 1%
- Daylight
- 12 h 09 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26°C | 17°C | 30°C (2020) | 14°C (1999) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| February | 27°C | 18°C | 30°C (2016) | 15°C (2014) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| March | 26°C | 17°C | 29°C (1997) | 14°C (2013) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| April | 24°C | 15°C | 28°C (2012) | 12°C (2008) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| May | 22°C | 14°C | 27°C (2015) | 11°C (2005) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| June | 21°C | 12°C | 28°C (2012) | 9°C (2001) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| July | 20°C | 12°C | 27°C (2016) | 8°C (2010) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| August | 21°C | 11°C | 27°C (2014) | 9°C (2007) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| September | 21°C | 12°C | 27°C (2013) | 9°C (2003) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| October | 22°C | 13°C | 29°C (2015) | 10°C (2005) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| November | 23°C | 14°C | 27°C (1994) | 11°C (2005) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| December | 25°C | 16°C | 28°C (2011) | 13°C (2001) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| Year | 23°C | 14°C | 6 mm | 0 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
6 mm in a normal year, most in July.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Iquique.
Days with a mean dew point of 18°C or more are rare here in every month.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14°C | 67% | 17% | 67% | 15% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 15°C | 68% | 8% | 66% | 26% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 14°C | 68% | 18% | 71% | 12% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 12°C | 69% | 66% | 34% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 10°C | 68% | 96% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 8°C | 68% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 8°C | 67% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 7°C | 65% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 8°C | 65% | 99% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 9°C | 65% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 10°C | 65% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 12°C | 66% | 68% | 32% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is September, with the sky 20 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is January, at 50 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is January, averaging 13.0 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Dec 17, with 13 h 22 min of daylight; the shortest is Jun 14, with 10 h 54 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Iquique in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.