Villa Las Estrellas (King George Island) climate
Antarctic Treaty area (Chile) · Antarctic Peninsula / South Shetlands · 62.196° S, 58.962° W
Köppen ETpolar tundraPolar & alpine
Polar maritime: months below freezing, brief barely-thaw summers, snow and ice almost all year.
Cold enough that no month is truly warm — tundra, ice cap, or high mountain.
What the year looks like
Average high Average low
Rain Snowfall
At a glance
Monthly climate normals
| Month | High °F/°C | Low °F/°C | Rain in/mm | Snow in/mm | Humidity | Wind mph/km/h | Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35 / 2 | 32 / 0 | 2.04 / 52 | 11.9 / 302 | 91% | 13.0 / 20.9 | 87% |
| February | 35 / 2 | 31 / 0 | 1.74 / 44 | 7.7 / 195 | 89% | 13.9 / 22.4 | 87% |
| March | 35 / 2 | 30 / -1 | 1.72 / 44 | 15.5 / 394 | 87% | 15.8 / 25.4 | 84% |
| April | 33 / 1 | 27 / -3 | 1.41 / 36 | 20.4 / 517 | 86% | 16.9 / 27.2 | 87% |
| May | 31 / -1 | 24 / -4 | 1.00 / 25 | 18.9 / 479 | 85% | 16.5 / 26.6 | 88% |
| June | 29 / -2 | 22 / -6 | 0.35 / 9 | 25.4 / 646 | 84% | 16.0 / 25.7 | 88% |
| July | 28 / -2 | 21 / -6 | 0.10 / 3 | 18.0 / 457 | 85% | 15.2 / 24.5 | 88% |
| August | 26 / -3 | 19 / -7 | 0.11 / 3 | 21.8 / 555 | 85% | 17.4 / 28.0 | 89% |
| September | 29 / -2 | 22 / -5 | 0.30 / 8 | 23.8 / 604 | 86% | 18.1 / 29.1 | 87% |
| October | 31 / -1 | 25 / -4 | 0.40 / 10 | 28.7 / 729 | 86% | 18.9 / 30.4 | 88% |
| November | 33 / 1 | 30 / -1 | 0.89 / 23 | 16.7 / 424 | 89% | 18.0 / 29.0 | 87% |
| December | 34 / 1 | 30 / -1 | 1.30 / 33 | 8.7 / 222 | 88% | 15.2 / 24.5 | 84% |
Could you have placed Villa Las Estrellas (King George Island) from those graphs alone?
That is the whole game: read a mystery location's climate charts, drop a pin on the world map, and score by how close you got.
Nearby
- Puerto Williams · 590 mi · / ET subpolar oceanic-tundra
- Ushuaia · 611 mi · subpolar oceanic
- Stanley · 727 mi · tundra
- Punta Arenas · 762 mi · subpolar oceanic
- Rio Gallegos · 824 mi · cold semi-arid
- Grytviken · 975 mi · tundra (sub-Antarctic)
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