Castelar
Castelar | |
|---|---|
City | |
  Castelar Location in Greater Buenos Aires | |
| Coordinates: 34°40′S 58°40′W / 34.667°S 58.667°W | |
| Country |  Argentina |
| Province |  Buenos Aires |
| Partido | File:Escudo Municipio de Morón.gif Morón |
| Declared city | 1971 |
| Elevation | 28 m (92 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 104,019 |
| CPA Base | B 1712 |
| Area code | +54 11 |
Castelar is a city in Morón Partido (county), Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, some 30 km west of the nation's capital, the autonomous city of Buenos Aires. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.
Castelar is the westernmost city of the Morón Partido, and borders on Ituzaingó Partido.
Climate
| Climate data for Castelar | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 38.0 (100.4) |
38.1 (100.6) |
38.3 (100.9) |
33.0 (91.4) |
29.7 (85.5) |
26.5 (79.7) |
31.1 (88.0) |
34.0 (93.2) |
31.7 (89.1) |
32.6 (90.7) |
35.2 (95.4) |
40.0 (104.0) |
40.0 (104.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.8 (85.6) |
29.1 (84.4) |
26.2 (79.2) |
22.6 (72.7) |
19.3 (66.7) |
15.4 (59.7) |
15.4 (59.7) |
16.8 (62.2) |
19.0 (66.2) |
21.3 (70.3) |
25.0 (77.0) |
28.1 (82.6) |
22.3 (72.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 23.5 (74.3) |
22.8 (73.0) |
20.1 (68.2) |
16.5 (61.7) |
13.4 (56.1) |
10.0 (50.0) |
10.2 (50.4) |
11.2 (52.2) |
13.5 (56.3) |
15.9 (60.6) |
19.5 (67.1) |
21.9 (71.4) |
16.5 (61.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 16.9 (62.4) |
16.8 (62.2) |
14.5 (58.1) |
11.1 (52.0) |
8.3 (46.9) |
5.9 (42.6) |
5.9 (42.6) |
5.9 (42.6) |
8.0 (46.4) |
10.5 (50.9) |
13.7 (56.7) |
15.7 (60.3) |
11.1 (52.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 6.5 (43.7) |
6.0 (42.8) |
3.3 (37.9) |
0.9 (33.6) |
−3.7 (25.3) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
1.5 (34.7) |
3.6 (38.5) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 86 (3.4) |
84 (3.3) |
135 (5.3) |
99 (3.9) |
66 (2.6) |
49 (1.9) |
49 (1.9) |
67 (2.6) |
51 (2.0) |
109 (4.3) |
86 (3.4) |
114 (4.5) |
995 (39.2) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 62 | 65 | 71 | 77 | 79 | 81 | 80 | 74 | 71 | 71 | 69 | 65 | 72 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 310.0 | 265.6 | 248.0 | 216.0 | 189.1 | 135.0 | 151.9 | 186.0 | 204.0 | 229.4 | 273.0 | 291.4 | 2,699.4 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 70 | 71 | 66 | 64 | 59 | 46 | 48 | 55 | 58 | 57 | 64 | 65 | 60 |
| Source 1: UNLP[1][2] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Oficina de Riesgo Agropecuario (record highs and lows)[3] | |||||||||||||
See also
References
- ^ "Resumen datos bioclimáticos–Castelar" (PDF) (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
- ^ "Datos bioclimáticos de 173 localidades argentinas". Atlas Bioclimáticos (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
- ^ "Castelar, Buenos Aires". Estadísticas meteorológicas decadiales (in Spanish). Oficina de Riesgo Agropecuario. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Castelar.
- (in Spanish) Castelar railway station on Google Maps
- (in Spanish) Castelar Digital
- (in Spanish) Historia y actualidad de Moron, Argentina
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