Antofagasta
Antofagasta
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About
Antofagasta is a port city in northern Chile, about 1,100 kilometres (700 mi) north of Santiago. It is the capital of Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region. As of the 2024 census, with a population of 401,096, it is the 5th-largest city in Chile.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Antofagasta, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Antofagasta
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Overcast
19° / 16°
UV Moderate
Sat
Overcast
19° / 14°
UV Moderate
Sun
Overcast
20° / 15°
UV Moderate
Mon
Overcast
19° / 15°
UV Moderate
Tue
Partly cloudy
19° / 14°
UV Moderate
Wed
Overcast
18° / 14°
UV Moderate
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
23° / 13°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
11.0h
07:07 – 18:07local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Antofagasta
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Andrés Sabella Gálvez International Airport (ANF) at 23 km.
Getting around Antofagasta
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC BY-SA 4.0, B1mbo.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.