El Monte climate — normals and trends
El Monte (Chile) has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Csb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 15.1 °C and it receives 560 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is January (21.6 °C on average) and the coldest is July (8.6 °C). Rainfall peaks in June.
El Monte averages 14 frost days, 35 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 49 rainy days per year.
The mean temperature of El Monte has changed by -0.7 °C between 1940 and 2025, or -0.08 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The hottest day of the period reached 39.6 °C (on 12 January 1941) and the coldest -7.9 °C (on 17 July 2017).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
Climate normals · ERA5
El MonteSantiago Metropolitan
- coords
- -33.68°, -70.98°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
15.1°C
Average daily high
22.1°C
Average daily low
8.9°C
Annual rainfall
560mm
Sunshine / day
10.7h
Mean relative humidity
67%
Average peak wind
9.6km/h
Seasonal range
13.0°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
14 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
35 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
49 d/yr
Annual snowfall
0.2 cm
Average feels-like high
22.0 °C
Average feels-like low
7.5 °C
Average peak gust
30.6 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
0 d/yr
Solar radiation
20.5 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
-0.7 °C
since 1940
-0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.14 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
Hottest day
39.6 °C
12 January 1941
Coldest day
-7.9 °C
17 July 2017
Wettest day
125 mm
4 July 1984
Windiest day
21.2 km/h
10 November 1947
Strongest gust
86.4 km/h
8 August 2015
Hottest feels-like
38.4 °C
31 January 2024
Coldest feels-like
-11.6 °C
17 July 2017
Snowiest day
6.4 cm
15 July 2017
Sunniest day
14.1 h
13 December 2024
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 30.4 °C | +1.2 °C | 0 mm | -3 mm |
| Feb | 30.8 °C | +2.1 °C | 0 mm | -4 mm |
| Mar | 27.4 °C | +0.5 °C | 15 mm | +7 mm |
| Apr | 23.4 °C | +0.5 °C | 11 mm | -19 mm |
| May | 19.2 °C | +0.9 °C | 91 mm | +3 mm |
| Jun | 15.2 °C | +0.2 °C | 90 mm | -50 mm |
| Jul | 17.3 °C | +2.5 °C | 37 mm | -77 mm |
| Aug | 17.0 °C | +0.7 °C | 97 mm | +14 mm |
| Sep | 20.0 °C | +1.6 °C | 32 mm | -18 mm |
| Oct | 24.2 °C | +2.8 °C | 7 mm | -19 mm |
| Nov | 25.8 °C | +0.6 °C | 4 mm | -7 mm |
| Dec | 29.1 °C | +1.1 °C | 4 mm | -1 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of El Monte?
El Monte has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 15.1 °C and it receives 560 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in El Monte?
The hottest day measured in El Monte between 1940 and 2025 was 12 January 1941, reaching 39.6 °C.
What is the coldest day in El Monte?
The coldest day measured in El Monte between 1940 and 2025 was 17 July 2017, at -7.9 °C.
Does it snow in El Monte?
Almost never: El Monte sees virtually no snow, with about 14 frost days per year.
Has the climate of El Monte warmed?
Between 1940 and 2025, no statistically significant temperature trend emerges in El Monte.
What is the wettest day in El Monte?
The wettest day measured in El Monte between 1940 and 2025 was 4 July 1984, with 125 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in El Monte?
The windiest day measured in El Monte between 1940 and 2025 was 10 November 1947, with winds reaching 21.2 km/h.
What is the warmest month in El Monte?
The warmest month in El Monte is January (21.6 °C on average); the coldest is July (8.6 °C).
How much does it rain in El Monte?
El Monte receives on average 560 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 49 rainy days.
Is it sunny in El Monte?
El Monte gets on average 10.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,905 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in El Monte?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in El Monte between 1940 and 2025 was 15 July 2017, with 6.4 cm.
Are there tropical nights in El Monte?
Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in El Monte.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in El Monte?
In El Monte, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 38.4 °C on 31 January 2024, and the lowest was -11.6 °C on 17 July 2017.
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