Calama
Calama
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About
Calama is a city and commune in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It is the capital of El Loa Province, part of the Antofagasta Region. Calama is one of the driest cities in the world with average annual precipitation of just 5 mm (0.20 in). The River Loa, Chile's longest, flows through the city. Calama has a population of 147,886.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calama, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Calama
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
Partly cloudy
22° / 7°
UV High
Sat
Clear
21° / 7°
UV High
Sun
Partly cloudy
21° / 6°
UV High
Mon
Clear
22° / 6°
UV High
Tue
Clear
22° / 7°
UV High
Wed
Partly cloudy
22° / 7°
UV High
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
29° / -4°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
11.1h
07:00 – 18:03local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Calama
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is El Loa Airport (CJC) at 5 km.
Getting around Calama
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
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- 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, Vrojast.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.