Climate information is increasingly relevant to society. (GlobeLiveMedia/Jovani Perez)

Spring, summer, fall or winter these days it doesn’t matter what season given the recent climate change that turns a scorching afternoon of sunshine into a storm in the blink of an eye.

Looking for the weather has become a habit for many people to know what to wear, what shoes to choose, plan a trip or decide whether or not to carry an umbrella. Below we present the weather in Antofagasta.

In Antofagasta, it is planned a maximum temperature of 24 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 16 degrees Celsius.

As for the rain the probability of precipitation for this city will be 3% during the day and 6% at night.

In the same direction, the cloudiness will be 20% during the day and 5% at night. While the gusts of wind they will reach 28 kilometers per hour during the day and 18 kilometers per hour at night.

Watch out for the sun, ultraviolet rays should reach a level of up to 10.

Being in the north of Chile, near the coast of the Pacific Ocean and near the Cordillera de la Costa, the city of Antofagasta has a mostly cold desert climate.

This means that in the coastal city winters are cold and summers are hotwhile the rainfall is rare all year.

In Antofagasta, the mean temperature around 16 degrees Celsius.

There Maximum temperature The average temperature in the city reaches 20 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature The average drops to 14 degrees Celsius.

In this Chilean town there is no rainy seasonIn any case, the month with the most tendency to present rains is September.

Antofagasta has a predominantly arid climate.  (Archive)
Antofagasta has a predominantly arid climate. (Archive)

In Chile they are present extreme climates, from very cold to very hotdue to its geographical location and particular territorial extension.

in the north of the countryfrom the region of Arica and Parinacota, in Valparaíso, three types of climate are distinguished: tundra and desert in its cold and hot variants.

There tundra It is characterized by a dry and always cold climate that occurs throughout the eastern part of the northern part of the Chilean country, on the border with Bolivia and Argentina.

He hot desert It is the one that predominates in most of the northern region of Chile, it is characterized by mild winters with nights that reach zero degrees Celsius, with very hot summers and little rain.

During this time he cold desert It is felt in the coastal areas of northern Chile, where the winters are very cold and the summers hot; here too, rainfall is very rare.

In the center of the countryfrom the southern part of Valparaíso and up to Bío Bío, the two main climates are the cold semi-arid, the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean with cool summers.

He cold semi-arid It appears in the most northwestern zone of the central part of the Chilean country, where the winters are very cold, the summers hot or temperate and the precipitation rare.

The climate Mediterranean It is the most abundant in central Chile and is characterized by mild winters, hot summers and a marked rainy season.

For his part, he Mediterranean with cool summers the most central region of the country appears, the only difference with the previous climate is that its summers are cool, as the name suggests.

In the southern part of the Chilean countryfrom Araucania to Magallanes, the predominant climates are the tundra, semi-arid and oceanic cold.

He oceanic It is the main climate of the southern zone, where the winters are cold and the summers cool, with rain practically all year round.

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