{"id":173,"date":"2011-06-05T19:57:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T22:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2021-05-14T15:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:11:47","slug":"clima-en-calafate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/calafate-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"The climate in El Calafate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2><em>At El Calafate the climate is dry, with only 300 mm. rainfall in a year. But inside the Park, which is located towards the west and where Perito Moreno Glacier is, the situation changes and rainfall easily gets to 1500mm.\/year.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div id=\"cont_fcd7a4560b0567932bd0133fa338af74\"><span id=\"h_fcd7a4560b0567932bd0133fa338af74\"><a id=\"a_fcd7a4560b0567932bd0133fa338af74\" style=\"color: #808080; font-family: 2; font-size: 14px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meteored.com.ar\/tiempo-en_El+Calafate-America+Sur-Argentina-Santa+Cruz-SAWC-1-14560.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weather in El Calafate<\/a><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meteored.com.ar\/wid_loader\/fcd7a4560b0567932bd0133fa338af74\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>As a matter of fact, El Calafate is situated at the equivalent latitude of the city of London, Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Several particular conditions give it a much better microclimate than the one of the Patagonic plateau where it is settled: it is located on the coast of Lake Argentino, on a mountainside facing north and protected by a growing tree forest which the local inhabitants take care of.<\/p>\n<p>It has a dry climate and the temperatures range from 20\u00baC (64.4F)\u00a0in summer to -3\u00baC (28.4F)\u00a0in winter. The length of the day varies a lot according to the time of the year: in summer you can enjoy about 17 hours of daylight and the shortest day in winter has nearly 8 hours of daylight.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Perito Moreno Glacier \" src=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/fte_glaciarmoreno5.jpg\" alt=\"Perito Moreno Glacier \" width=\"240\" height=\"170\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the glaciers area the weather becomes much more wet and the cold coming from the ices sets a difference to the weather of the city.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keep this info in mind when packing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, on the main street there are many shops where you can rent special winter clothing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At El Calafate the climate is dry, with only 300 mm. rainfall in a year. But inside the Park, which is located towards the west and where Perito Moreno Glacier is, the situation changes and rainfall easily gets to 1500mm.\/year. Weather in El Calafate As a matter of fact, El Calafate is situated at the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/calafate-weather\/\">Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[50],"class_list":{"0":"post-173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calafate","8":"tag-enhomecat"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9833,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/9833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}