Climate averages 1991–2020
Mazār-e Sharīf weather
in March.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Mazār-e Sharīf: daytime highs average 17.3°C and nights cool to about 6.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 47 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Balkh (20 km away). In March its highs average 17.1°C, about as warm as Mazār-e Sharīf, with 47 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Mazār-e Sharīf ranks joint 5th of 14 for the warmest March highs and joint 3rd of 14 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 14 cities is 15.2°C; Mazār-e Sharīf is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.6°C to 23.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 47 mm to 34 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Mazār-e Sharīf climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.6°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 34 | 7.4 | 10.010 h |
| February | 11.5°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 40 | 8.0 | 10.811 h |
| March, selected | 17.3°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 47 | 8.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.8°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 34 | 5.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 30.3°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 13 | 2.7 | 14.114 h |
| June | 35.9°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 0.8 | 0.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 37.6°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 0.1 | 0.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 35.6°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.614 h |
| September | 30.6°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 23.5°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 4.3 | 1.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 23 | 5.2 | 10.310 h |
| December | 11.1°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 25 | 5.6 | 9.710 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
March in nearby cities
- Balkh in MarchAfghanistan · 20 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 5.8°C · 47 mm rain
- Tirmiz in MarchUzbekistan · 59 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 7.2°C · 39 mm rain
- Kunduz in MarchAfghanistan · 156 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 4.7°C · 76 mm rain
- Baghlān in MarchAfghanistan · 157 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 4.0°C · 93 mm rain
- Khanabad in MarchAfghanistan · 179 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 4.6°C · 69 mm rain
- Denov in MarchUzbekistan · 187 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 3.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Bokhtar in MarchTajikistan · 194 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 6.4°C · 63 mm rain
- Maymana in MarchAfghanistan · 226 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 3.0°C · 81 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Mazār-e Sharīf) is explained once on the Mazār-e Sharīf year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Balkh lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.