Villa Las Estrellas weather by month & the best time to visit
🇦🇶 Antarctica · seaside town · subpolar / tundra climate
Villa Las Estrellas is short on reliable sunshine. Its best month is January (Score 0/100) — for stronger sun, try one of the nearby alternatives below.
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- Sun hours / year
- 1,472
- Sunniest month
- January
- Peak score
- 0/100
- Rain / year
- 1,027 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈7.8 m
- Midday UV at peak
- 5 (moderate)
- Sea at warmest
- 2°C / 36°F
- Elevation
- 44 m
When is the best time to visit Villa Las Estrellas?
Villa Las Estrellas never gets truly sunny weather: January is as good as it gets at 0/100, and January is the low point (0/100). If sunshine is the point of the trip, the nearby alternatives below do better.
How sunny is Villa Las Estrellas?
Villa Las Estrellas isn't a sunny place by world standards: about 1,472 hours of sunshine a year. Conditions barely change through the year — only 0 Sunshine Score points separate January from January. It is the only destination Sunshine Map tracks in Antarctica. The year's 1,027 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 | 0 | 1° / 34°F | 0° / 32°F | 82 mm | 5 | 2° / 36°F |
| February | 0 | 2° / 36°F | 0° / 32°F | 83 mm | 4 | 2° / 36°F |
| March | 0 | 1° / 34°F | 0° / 32°F | 104 mm | 2 | 1° / 34°F |
| April | 0 | 0° / 32°F | -2° / 28°F | 93 mm | 0 | 0° / 32°F |
| May | 0 | -1° / 30°F | -4° / 25°F | 94 mm | 0 | -1° / 30°F |
| June | 0 | -3° / 27°F | -6° / 21°F | 84 mm | 0 | -1° / 30°F |
| July | 0 | -3° / 27°F | -7° / 19°F | 81 mm | 0 | -2° / 28°F |
| August | 0 | -3° / 27°F | -7° / 19°F | 84 mm | 0 | -2° / 28°F |
| September | 0 | -2° / 28°F | -6° / 21°F | 80 mm | 2 | -2° / 28°F |
| October | 0 | -1° / 30°F | -3° / 27°F | 87 mm | 3 | -1° / 30°F |
| November | 0 | 0° / 32°F | -2° / 28°F | 79 mm | 5 | 0° / 32°F |
| December | 0 | 0° / 32°F | -1° / 30°F | 76 mm | 5 | 1° / 34°F |
Sea temperature in Villa Las Estrellas by month
The sea off Villa Las Estrellas is warmest in January at around 2°C / 36°F, and coolest in July at -2°C / 28°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 · 1,238 km · best in Feb · 1,460 h sun/yr
- Balmaceda Chile · 1,982 km · best in Feb · 2,893 h sun/yr
- San Carlos de Bariloche Argentina · 2,476 km · best in Feb · 2,627 h sun/yr
- Puerto Montt Chile · 2,490 km · best in Feb · 2,120 h sun/yr
- Temuco Chile · 2,748 km · best in Jan · 2,637 h sun/yr
- Concepcion Chile · 2,989 km · best in Jan · 3,020 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Ushuaia Argentina · 978 km · 1,395 h sun/yr · best in Feb
- Rio Grande Argentina · 1,067 km · 2,240 h sun/yr · best in Feb
- Mount Pleasant Falkland Islands · 1,153 km · 1,835 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Stanley Falkland Islands · 1,170 km · 1,808 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Rio Gallegos Argentina · 1,330 km · 2,204 h sun/yr · best in Jan
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