Bahía Blanca
City in Argentina: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
View of Bahía Blanca: Karine Langlois, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Bahía Blanca is a city in Argentina, in Buenos Aires. About 299,101 people live in the city proper, making it the 11th largest city of Argentina in our atlas.
It lies at 38.72° S, 62.27° W, about 20 m (66 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires time zone.
Location
Red dot: Bahía Blanca. Green dots: other major cities of Argentina. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Bahía Blanca has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). The warmest month is usually Jan, with average highs near 32°C (90°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 1°C (34°F). Around 645 mm (25 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Oct.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
What to eat in ArgentinaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Mar del Plata · 416 km
- Avellaneda · 563 km
- Buenos Aires · 567 km
- Rosario · 656 km
- Santa Fe · 796 km
- Córdoba · 828 km
- Resistencia · 1,281 km
- Corrientes · 1,284 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3865086 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q54108 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- View of Bahía Blanca: Karine Langlois, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)