Climate
Punta del Este has a mild oceanic climate (Cfb, according to the Köppen climate classification), with pleasant summers and cool winters. The precipitation is evenly distributed throughout the year, with an average of 1,010 mm (39.76 in). The hottest month, January, has an average temperature of 21.7 °C (71 °F), and the coldest month, July, has an average of 11.5 °C (52.7 °F). The average yearly temperature is 16.6 °C (61.88 °F).
| Climate data for Punta del Este | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 25.2 (77.4) |
25.1 (77.2) |
24.0 (75.2) |
21.2 (70.2) |
18.2 (64.8) |
14.8 (58.6) |
14.4 (57.9) |
14.7 (58.5) |
16.0 (60.8) |
18.4 (65.1) |
21.0 (69.8) |
23.8 (74.8) |
19.73 (67.52) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 18.1 (64.6) |
18.4 (65.1) |
17.6 (63.7) |
14.9 (58.8) |
12.1 (53.8) |
9.5 (49.1) |
8.7 (47.7) |
8.8 (47.8) |
9.9 (49.8) |
11.4 (52.5) |
14.1 (57.4) |
16.4 (61.5) |
13.33 (55.99) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 75.4 (2.969) |
84.8 (3.339) |
79.3 (3.122) |
84.0 (3.307) |
91.4 (3.598) |
80.3 (3.161) |
90.3 (3.555) |
93.9 (3.697) |
93.1 (3.665) |
85.0 (3.346) |
86.8 (3.417) |
66.6 (2.622) |
1,010.9 (39.799) |
| Avg. precipitation days | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 107 |
| Source: World Meteorological Organization | |||||||||||||
Read more about this topic: Punta Del Este
Famous quotes containing the word climate:
“A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe.... What a terrible future!”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim to all his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functions ... extends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“If often he was wrong and at times absurd,
To us he is no more a person
Now but a whole climate of opinion.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)