Other conditions at this reading
- Dew point
- 5.0°C
- Humidity
- 100%
- derived from the temperature and dew point
- Wind
- Variable, 4 km/h
- Pressure
- 1027.8 hPa
- altimeter setting, QNH
Where Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt stands
Its highest placing today was 2,021st of 5,130, reached at 06:00 UTC.
- Best global cold placing in 44 days recorded: 169th of 9,009.
- Was the coldest reporting station in Chile on 7 of those 44 days.
Ranking as of 09:45 UTC.
☀️ How 5.0°C comparesA typical January afternoon in Brussels.
The last 24 hours
Local timeThe record book, month by month
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happenedJan
35.2°
Fri 27 Jan 2017
−0.7°
Tue 18 Jan 2022
Feb
38.1°
Sun 5 Feb 2023
−0.1°
Fri 7 Feb 2020
Mar
32.0°
Fri 5 Mar 2021
−1.6°
Wed 30 Mar 2022
Apr
26.4°
Fri 4 Apr 2008
−3.1°
Sun 12 Apr 2020
May
21.2°
Record high
24.9°C
Sat 7 Nov 2015
Record low
0.0°C
Wed 7 Nov 2001
Average high
18.9°C
all years on record
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Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt has dropped below freezing on 956 nights since 1973. The desert remembers every one of them.
From our dataNights with a minimum below 0°C since 1973. - 2
Right now Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is 54.5°C colder than Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt. Same planet. Same afternoon.
From our dataBoth readings are live and ranked on this site now. - 3
The coldest night Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt has ever recorded, −7.0°C, would pass for a warm spell at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which is −49.5°C right now.
From our dataThis station's record low against the current live reading at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
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9.9°C short of the record for 7 November
Today’s high 15.0°C against 24.9°C in 2015. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
38.1°C
- Date
- Sunday, 5 February 2023
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt, Chile
- Position
- 39.65°S 73.09°W · 19 m
The highest in available records since 1973. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1973 to 2025.
All-time record low
−7.0°C
- Date
- Thursday, 19 July 1973
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt, Chile
- Position
- 39.65°S 73.09°W · 19 m
The lowest in available records since 1973. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1973 to 2025.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 26.0°C, lowest 3.0°C, mean 12.7°C. 47 days recorded from 1,064 readings.
By month, from our own record
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 21.0°C | 3.0°C | 11.0°C | 7 | 154 |
| October 2026 | 26.0°C | 5.0°C | 13.3°C | 31 | 723 |
| September 2026 | 16.0°C | 5.0°C | 11.7°C | 8 of 9 | 187 |
Means are of the readings we stored, weighted by how often this station reported, so they are not daily averages and not climate normals. Some days were recorded before we began counting observations and contribute their high and low but not the mean.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
26.0°C
Thu 15 Oct 2026 at 17:00 local
Lowest
3.0°C
Fri 6 Nov 2026 at 05:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt since September 2026, across 47 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt (SCVD) is a METAR weather station in Chile, 19 m above sea level, about 21 km from Las Animas.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 1,064 observations across the 46 of those days for which we also recorded a count.
Recent temperature history
The same record at three widths, picking up where the last 24 hours above leaves off. Each period is summarised from the grain that suits it, so nothing here is one reading repeated thousands of times into the page.
Recent readings
Each reading as it arrived, newest first, with what our quality checks did with it. A reading we did not count is shown struck through with the reason.
| Time | Temp | Change | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| low | 5.0°C | 0.0°C | Counted |
| 5.0°C | −1.0°C | Counted | |
| 6.0°C | −1.0°C | Counted | |
| 7.0°C | 0.0°C |
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from 3.0°C to 21.0°C, a spread of 18.0°C.
It reports about once an hour, and sent 24 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 2,021st coldest of the 5,130 stations reporting.
What stands out here
- Its widest single day so far swung 18.0°C between low and high.
Recent highlights
Fell to 4.0°C, the lowest we have recorded here, beating 5.0°C on Mon 28 Sep 2026.
- and the 1 days before it
Reached 26.0°C, the highest we have recorded here, beating 22.0°C on Wed 14 Oct 2026.
Its high of 26.0°C was the highest of the 57 stations we hold in Chile.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 24 readings a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | 15.0°C | 00:00 UTC | 5.0°C | 09:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-06 | 21.0°C | 20:00 UTC | 3.0°C | 08:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-05 | 15.0°C | 15:00 UTC | 11.0°C | 11:00 UTC |
| 2026-11-04 | 17.0°C | 17:00 UTC |
Nearby, and the opposite
- Nearest stationTemuco Arpt14.0°C88.9 km away, today's high
- Warmest nearbyOsorno/Siebert Arpt14.0°C106.1 km away
- The opposite of hereAmundsen-Scott South Pole Station−49.5°CAntarctica
| Station | Away | Height | High | Low | vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
What we have stored, day by day
We have readings for every one of the 47 days since we started storing this station on 22 September 2026.
Tracking history
It has reported on every day since Tue 22 Sep 2026.
- First reading stored10.0°C on our first day here
- 100 readings storedfired late: 1 earlier day(s) carry no reading count
- First day as the hottest we hold in its country26.0°C
- 30 days reporting without a gap
- 1,000 readings storedfired late: 1 earlier day(s) carry no reading count
Where this station is
This station lies about 4,400 km south of the equator.
Where Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt is
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39.65°S 73.09°W
Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-11-06, from NASA GIBS. This is the temperature of the ground seen from orbit, not the air, and it is never ranked against air readings. Cloud hides the ground, so gaps are unread rather than guessed.
View more on Google Maps39.6500°S, 73.0860°W
Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt, answered from the data
How hot does it get in Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt?
The warmest month on record here is February, when the highest reading has reached 38.1°C (100.6°F) on Sunday, 5 February 2023.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt?
The coldest month on record here is June, when the lowest reading has fallen to −7.0°C (19.4°F) on Thursday, 14 June 1979.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt?
38.1°C (100.6°F) on Sunday, 5 February 2023. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 1973. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt?
−7.0°C (19.4°F) on Thursday, 19 July 1973. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1973.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Valdivia/Pichoy Arpt right now?
5.0°C (41.0°F), measured at 06:00 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Data sources for this page
Readings here arrive through NOAA METAR. METAR is the routine aerodrome weather report, issued for aviation, typically every 30 or 60 minutes and more often when conditions change. It updates far more frequently than a synoptic report, which is why these pages have a usable chart.
| Figure | Source | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Latest reading, today so far | NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP) | Measured, station |
| All-time, monthly and on-this-day records | NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCN-Daily), 1973 to 2025 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 47 days | Measured, station |
| Nearby stations and distances | Computed from station positions in our own database | Calculated |
How these readings are checked
Every reading on this page has passed the checks below. A reading that fails any of them is stored as refused and can never be ranked, shown as a record, or counted in a daily high or low.
No reading from this station has been refused in the last 14 days.
- 01
Has a real position
A reading with no usable latitude and longitude is discarded. It cannot be ranked, mapped, or compared with its neighbours, and a temperature with no place is not an answer to which place is hottest.
- 02
Position is not a placeholder
Some feeds fill an unknown position with a stand-in value such as 99.99 degrees or an elevation of 9999 m. Those are not coordinates. They are caught separately from a missing position because a station placed at a fake point has no neighbours, so the neighbour check below can never see anything wrong with it.
- 03
The bulletin itself is current
SYNOP arrives as files that are only re-read when they change. A file that has stopped being updated is set aside whole, before any reading inside it is considered.
- 04
The reading is recent enough for its network
Different networks get different windows, because they report at different rates: 2 hours for METAR, which transmits continuously, and 9 hours for SYNOP, which reports at 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. A single rule would have discarded the entire synoptic network, including every station in Antarctica.
- 05
Inside the range of measured temperature