🇦🇷 Argentina
El Calafate
El Calafate, also called Calafate, is a city in the Argentine province of Santa Cruz, in Patagonia. It is located on the southern border of Lago Argentino, in the southwest part of the province. It is the seat of government for the Lago Argentino Department within the province. The name of the city is also the name of a small bush, with yellow flowers and dark-blue berries, that is very commonly seen in the region—the calafate. The word comes from the word calafate, which is Spanish for 'caulk'.
- Country
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- Elevation
- 204 m
- Population
- 22,844
- Time zone
- America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos
- Coordinates
- -50.34, -72.28
Weather in El Calafate month by month
The best months to go: Jan · Feb · Dec
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 16° | 17° | 14° | 11° | 7° | 4° | 2° | 4° | 7° | 10° | 13° | 15° |
| low | 9° | 10° | 8° | 5° | 3° | 0° | -2° | -1° | 1° | 4° | 6° | 9° |
| rain | 36 mm | 44 mm | 51 mm | 65 mm | 50 mm | 35 mm | 45 mm | 55 mm | 39 mm | 47 mm | 44 mm | 33 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far El Calafate is from other cities in Argentina
- Ushuaia564 km✈ 1 h 26 min · 🚗 9 h 24 min
- Bariloche1,025 km✈ 2 h · 🚗 17 h 5 min
- Bahía Blanca1,514 km✈ 2 h 36 min · 🚗 25 h 14 min
- Mar del Plata1,799 km✈ 2 h 57 min · 🚗 29 h 59 min
- Mendoza1,961 km✈ 3 h 8 min · 🚗 32 h 41 min
- Laferrere2,058 km✈ 3 h 16 min · 🚗 34 h 18 min
- Merlo2,060 km✈ 3 h 16 min · 🚗 34 h 20 min
- Quilmes2,075 km✈ 3 h 17 min · 🚗 34 h 35 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.