Balmaceda Airport

SCBA · Aysén, Chile

Climate Balmaceda Airport 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Balmaceda Airport (SCBA) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 97.2 99 97 99 97 100
February 97.3 98 98 96 100 94
March 93.0 88 91 94 95 93
April 91.9 95 91 90 84
May 85.7 87 90 87 82
June 81.8 82 93 79 78
July 75.7 59 71 90 56
August 86.0 63 87 80 84
September 91.2 91 92 91 95
October 94.1 94 96 94
November 95.2 94 100 100 99
December 96.3 97 97 100 98
Average 91.6 95.1 91.5 92.9 90.0 88.8

5th best VFR conditions of Chile

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 98.7 100 99 100 100 100
February 99.3 100 100 100 100 100
March 98.2 100 98 100 99 100
April 98.2 100 98 99 95
May 93.5 98 96 93 96
June 92.2 91 97 96 96
July 91.6 94 89 98 83
August 95.3 81 96 97 96
September 97.9 99 97 99 100
October 98.6 99 99 100
November 97.5 100 100 100 100
December 97.9 99 99 100 100
Average 97.2 99.8 98.1 97.8 97.9 97.4

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 18.3 20 20 19 18 19
February 19.8 21 18 20 23 18
March 15.7 14 14 15 18 18
April 12.5 13 11 14 13
May 8.5 9 7 9 9
June 4.4 5 5 5 5
July 3.6 2 2 6 2
August 7.0 2 7 8 6
September 9.6 9 9 10 10
October 12.3 12 13 13
November 15.3 13 18 12 17
December 17.1 18 16 13 17
Average 12.7 17.9 12.3 11.5 12.3 12.1

33rd highest temperature of Chile

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 8.1 9 9 7 9 10
February 7.9 8 9 7 9 7
March 5.4 5 5 5 6 7
April 4.2 2 3 7 5
May 1.1 2 -1 1 3
June -3.8 -2 -4 -1 0
July -2.3 -4 -4 2 -2
August 0.2 -3 0 1 1
September 1.0 -1 2 2 1
October 2.8 2 3 3
November 5.3 4 6 11 7
December 7.7 6 7 13 9
Average 3.8 7.2 2.9 2.3 4.3 4.2

1st lowest temperature of Chile

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 3.7 0 5 6 3 4
February 2.7 3 2 5 0 5
March 8.0 15 8 7 4 5
April 8.0 3 10 6 6
May 9.1 11 7 6 9
June 13.6 12 5 10 11
July 14.3 14 16 14 18
August 10.6 34 11 12 9
September 7.7 7 10 6 7
October 6.2 6 5 8
November 5.1 7 1 0 3
December 4.5 3 9 0 2
Average 7.1 5.7 6.7 7.2 6.7 6.8

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 21.4 22 21 21 19 22
February 18.6 18 23 19 14 17
March 17.1 19 18 20 15 16
April 15.5 17 16 15 13
May 11.9 16 11 10 11
June 10.9 10 11 11 11
July 10.6 7 10 16 9
August 14.3 6 17 13 15
September 16.3 14 18 10 19
October 18.2 18 20 18
November 19.6 21 19 28 19
December 20.8 19 22 33 22
Average 16.9 19.9 17.6 17.7 13.9 16.3

33rd highest wind speed of Chile

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 295° 295° 294° 296° 296°
February 295° 294° 297° 296° 294°
March 294° 293° 294° 295° 297°
April 294° 293° 296° 297°
May 294° 293° 297° 293°
June 287° 291° 295° 289°
July 280° 291° 292° 294°
August 187° 292° 291° 295°
September 292° 295° 297° 295°
October 293° 292° 295°
November 294° 295° 289° 293°
December 294° 293° 299° 296°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.