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Its not a bad climate at all! Specially summer! wow, those lows are amazing. I mean, highs are too high for me (almost as hot as BA) but lows are waaaaay lower, i bet summers there feel 1.000.000 cooler than here
Yes, I've been to Santiago twice, both occasions in the summer. And I can attest to what you say. It really feels a million times cooler. I mean, it's usually hot in the afternoon (and it's always sunny, almost no clouds for days on end), but when you're walking in the glaring sun at 3 pm, you know that by 6 or 7 pm, the heat will be gone, and you'll sleep like an angel at night. And mornings can be really cool in the summer.
Besides, there's not too much day-to-day variation, as there can be in BA. In Santiago, the pregression of temps in the summer is more or less like this (as I felt them when I was there, so it differs a bit from the Wikipedia chart).
7 pm: 10 to 13 C
10 pm: 15 to 18 C
12 pm: 20 to 25 C
2 pm: 27 to 30 C
4 pm: 31 C
6 pm: 26 to 29 C
8 pm: 22 to 25 C
10 pm: 18 to 21 C
12 pm: 15 to 18 C
Some days can be a bit cooler.
I rate it a B- or a C+, just like you, Sophie. Yes, definitely it's a more livable weather than BA's, although it loses point as regards variability, since it's more stable than BA's, at least in the summer.
I attribute this stability of Santiago's climate to the cold Humboldt Current on the Pacific. What do you all think? I'm no expert, I'm just saying.
BTW, humidity is very low in the summer.
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Originally Posted by SophieLL
Winter temperatures are similar than here, with slightly higher highs and lower lows. This is a strange type of climate, isnt it? I like it.
I guess the cold Humboldt Current, which runs South-North from Antarctica parallel to the coast all the way to Northern Peru, has something to do with it.
As to winter temps, I've never been there in the winter, but those numbers that Wiki cites seem a bit too high. I thought they were lower, especially the lows. Anyway, it also depends on the station they took the data from. As you move East in Santiago, the elevation starts to rise gradually from 500 m to 900 or 1000 m. Interesting that the eastern parts of the city are the rich neighborhoods, and are the coolest ones too.
All in all, despite the high Andes, the city of Santiago is quite flat. Just the Cerro San Cristóbal and one or two smaller hills break the urban landscape. The rest is like BA: urban flatland.
Just spent a couple weeks there in their summer and loved it. Nice warm and days and cool nights. Winter is a bit cool and overcast for 3 months but the other 9 are very nice. I would rank Santiago close to the best US climates of SoCal but most similar to the outer Bay Area of Pleasanton.
interesting climate, i thought it would be more typically mediterranean, i.e., higher summer lows, but pacific current has an influence.
Must be really comfortable overall, and these winter months do not seem particularly gloomy, although at 33 degrees 120 hours of sun are not the same than at 44 degrees, but anyway...
B. A decent climate, would get an A if it snowed more than once in a blue moon. The summers are perfect, warm days and coolish nights and the dry season is longer than in many Mediterranean climates.
I suspect the midwinter sunshine hours are because mountains block the sun when it is low. It looks too dry and too far inland to get a lot of could.
The summers aren't bad at all but heatwaves are little too common and the winters look nearly ideal as do the sunshine and rainfall figures. As is the case with most of Chile, it's vastly superior to most of the inhabited parts of the planet. The summer lows also look pretty good now that I mention it.
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