Hiking Patagonia

When to hike Patagonia

From January to March, all 6 destinations clear our recommendation criteria. Not one of them does from June to September.

Averaged across the destinations, January is the warmest month at 12 degrees in the hiking window and July the coldest at 0. Every destination here is in the southern hemisphere.

How far apart the destinations are

The selected grid cells run from 371 metres at Tierra del Fuego to 1,528 metres at Lanín, with a median of 979 metres. Tierra del Fuego clears the criteria in 4 months (from December to March), Lanín in 6 months (from December to May).

The longest season belongs to Villarrica, at 8 months (from October to May); the shortest to Torres del Paine, at 3 months (from January to March).

What closes the missing months

Where a destination loses months, a critical climate component falls below the threshold at which we stop recommending a month. The main reason is snow cover, for every one of the 6 destinations.

In June, the quietest month, every destination is closed, all of them by snow cover.

Not counted here is one further destination for which we publish no recommendation. It is listed below with the reason.

Conditions in February

February is when the open destinations score highest on average. Hiking-window temperature then runs from 8 degrees at Tierra del Fuego to 16 at Villarrica, and rain falls on 20 to 72 percent of days depending on the destination.

What these figures cover

Each destination is described by one selected ERA5-Land grid cell, averaged over 1991 to 2025. The figures above summarise those 6 cells. They are not a map of the whole area or of any route, and they are not a forecast.