Mount Pleasant weather by month & the best time to visit
🇫🇰 Falkland Islands · seaside town · oceanic / maritime climate
Mount Pleasant is short on reliable sunshine. Its best month is January (Score 32/100) — for stronger sun, try one of the nearby alternatives below.
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- Sun hours / year
- 1,835
- Sunniest month
- January
- Peak score
- 32/100
- Rain / year
- 626 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈11 cm
- Midday UV at peak
- 7 (high)
- Sea at warmest
- 12°C / 54°F
- Population
- 2k
- Elevation
- 66 m
When is the best time to visit Mount Pleasant?
Mount Pleasant never gets truly sunny weather: January is as good as it gets at 32/100, and May is the low point (0/100). If sunshine is the point of the trip, the nearby alternatives below do better.
How sunny is Mount Pleasant?
Mount Pleasant gets a moderate 1,835 hours of sunshine a year. January (32/100) is noticeably better than May (0). It is the sunnier of the two destinations tracked in Falkland Islands. The year's 626 mm of rain spreads fairly evenly across the months, with no pronounced dry season.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV | Sea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32 | 13° / 55°F | 7° / 45°F | 64 mm | 7 | 11° / 52°F |
| February | 27 | 12° / 54°F | 7° / 45°F | 51 mm | 5 | 12° / 54°F |
| March | 20 | 11° / 52°F | 6° / 43°F | 61 mm | 3 | 10° / 50°F |
| April | 6 | 9° / 48°F | 5° / 41°F | 66 mm | 1 | 8° / 46°F |
| May | 0 | 6° / 43°F | 3° / 37°F | 55 mm | 1 | 6° / 43°F |
| June | 0 | 5° / 41°F | 2° / 36°F | 49 mm | 0 | 5° / 41°F |
| July | 0 | 4° / 39°F | 1° / 34°F | 51 mm | 0 | 4° / 39°F |
| August | 0 | 4° / 39°F | 1° / 34°F | 46 mm | 1 | 4° / 39°F |
| September | 0 | 6° / 43°F | 2° / 36°F | 44 mm | 2 | 5° / 41°F |
| October | 0 | 8° / 46°F | 3° / 37°F | 38 mm | 4 | 6° / 43°F |
| November | 13 | 10° / 50°F | 4° / 39°F | 48 mm | 6 | 8° / 46°F |
| December | 27 | 12° / 54°F | 6° / 43°F | 53 mm | 7 | 10° / 50°F |
Sea temperature in Mount Pleasant by month
The sea off Mount Pleasant is warmest in February at around 12°C / 54°F, and coolest in July at 4°C / 39°F. It never reaches comfortable swimming temperatures (21°C+). Month-by-month sea-surface temperatures are in the Sea column of the table above.
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Punta Arenas Chile · 851 km · best in Feb · 1,460 h sun/yr
- Balmaceda Chile · 1,168 km · best in Feb · 2,893 h sun/yr
- San Carlos de Bariloche Argentina · 1,530 km · best in Feb · 2,627 h sun/yr
- Puerto Montt Chile · 1,601 km · best in Feb · 2,120 h sun/yr
- Temuco Chile · 1,806 km · best in Jan · 2,637 h sun/yr
- Buenos Aires (Ezeiza) Argentina · 1,890 km · best in Dec · 2,741 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Stanley Falkland Islands · 48 km · 1,808 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Rio Grande Argentina · 662 km · 2,240 h sun/yr · best in Feb
- Puerto Deseado Argentina · 702 km · 2,786 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Ushuaia Argentina · 734 km · 1,395 h sun/yr · best in Feb
- Rio Gallegos Argentina · 748 km · 2,204 h sun/yr · best in Jan
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