Gan Gan
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Gan Gan | |
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Municipality and village | |
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  Gan Gan Location of Gan Gan in Argentina | |
| 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.
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