Mar del Plata
City in Argentina: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
MDQMontage: Quilmeño89, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Mar del Plata is a city in Argentina, in Buenos Aires. About 593,337 people live in the city proper, making it the 4th largest city of Argentina in our atlas.
It lies at 38.00° S, 57.56° W, about 14 m (46 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires time zone.
Location
Red dot: Mar del Plata. Green dots: other major cities of Argentina. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Mar del Plata has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). The warmest month is usually Jan, with average highs near 24°C (76°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 6°C (42°F). Around 1,157 mm (46 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, spread fairly evenly through the year.
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.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in ArgentinaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Avellaneda · 377 km
- Buenos Aires · 383 km
- Bahía Blanca · 420 km
- Rosario · 622 km
- Santa Fe · 757 km
- Córdoba · 934 km
- Corrientes · 1,174 km
- Resistencia · 1,176 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3430863 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q52607 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- MDQMontage: Quilmeño89, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Estadio minella vista aerea: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Museo del mar 2: No machine-readable author provided. Ezarate assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Museo Castagnino: Eduardo N. Fortes, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Palacio Cosmos 1970: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- TorreondelMonje-MDP-ene2015: Ezarate, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Playa Bristol - Mar del Plata- Ca 1910: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Palacio Edén 1971: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Spa-LaPerla: DagosNavy, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
