Gan Gan
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Gan Gan | |
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Municipality and village | |
Coordinates: 42°30′S 68°16′W / 42.500°S 68.267°W | |
Country | Argentina |
Province | Chubut Province |
Department | Telsen Department |
Elevation | 2,080 ft (634 m) |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 661 |
Time zone | UTC−3 (ART) |
Climate | BSk |
Gan Gan is a village and municipality in Chubut Province in southern Argentina.[1]
Geography[edit]
Climate[edit]
This town is located in the middle of northern Patagonia, right in the steppe. Consequently, the climate is cold semi-arid (BSk, according to the Köppen climate classification) and it can be quite extreme: temperatures can range from well above 35 °C (95 °F) on the hottest summer days (but with cold, desert nights at around 10 °C or 50 °F) to lows that might reach −35 °C (−31 °F). Usually, summer days average 24 °C (75 °F) and nights 10 °C (50 °F), whereas winter days average 4 °C (40 °F) and nights, −3 °C (27 °F). Snow is relatively common and the weather is generally windy.
Climate data for Gan Gan (modelled data) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 24.2 (75.6) | 23.3 (73.9) | 19.4 (66.9) | 14.2 (57.6) | 9.4 (48.9) | 5.4 (41.7) | 4.5 (40.1) | 7.0 (44.6) | 10.5 (50.9) | 14.7 (58.5) | 18.7 (65.7) | 22.2 (72.0) | 14.5 (58.0) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 17.3 (63.1) | 16.5 (61.7) | 13.1 (55.6) | 8.3 (46.9) | 4.6 (40.3) | 1.4 (34.5) | 0.4 (32.7) | 2.3 (36.1) | 4.9 (40.8) | 8.6 (47.5) | 12.2 (54.0) | 15.4 (59.7) | 8.8 (47.7) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 10.4 (50.7) | 10.0 (50.0) | 7.3 (45.1) | 3.7 (38.7) | 1.0 (33.8) | −1.5 (29.3) | −2.7 (27.1) | −1.2 (29.8) | 0.4 (32.7) | 2.9 (37.2) | 5.8 (42.4) | 8.6 (47.5) | 3.7 (38.7) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 15 (0.6) | 22 (0.9) | 19 (0.7) | 27 (1.1) | 24 (0.9) | 32 (1.3) | 25 (1.0) | 23 (0.9) | 23 (0.9) | 26 (1.0) | 17 (0.7) | 16 (0.6) | 269 (10.6) |
Source: Climate-Data.org[2] |
References[edit]
- ^ Ministerio del Interior (in Spanish)
- ^ "Climate-Data.org". Retrieved 2021-05-16.