Temperature, probability of rain, clouds and ultraviolet rays are some of the information you need to know before leaving home. (GlobeLiveMedia/Jovani Perez)

Before leaving the house, know Antofagasta weather forecast for the following hours of this Saturday.

In Antofagasta, it is planned a maximum temperature of 23 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 17 degrees Celsius.

As for the rain the probability of precipitation for this city will be 7% during the day and 1% at night.

In the same direction, the cloudiness will be 26% during the day and 6% at night. While the gusts of wind they will reach 28 kilometers per hour during the day and 17 kilometers per hour at night.

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

Being located in the north of Chile, near the coast of the Pacific Ocean and close to the Cordillera de la Costa, Antofagasta features a predominantly arid and cold climatic state.

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

In Antofagasta, the mean temperature It is between 16 degrees Celsius.

There Maximum temperature average temperature in the city is 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.

The city of Antofagasta has a mainly desert climate.  (Archive)
The city of Antofagasta has a mainly desert climate. (Archive)

In Chile they present themselves extreme climatic conditions, from very cold to very hotdue to its geographical location and particular territorial extension.

In the north of the Chilean 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 region of the country, on the border with Bolivia and Argentina.

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

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

In the center of the Chilean 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 part of the central part of the country, where the winters are very cold, the summers are hot or temperate, and rainfall is 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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