Climate averages 1991–2020

Cabinda weather
in March.

A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 29.0°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 25.3°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 169 mm 23 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Cabinda · average highYear overview

March is a hot month in Cabinda: daytime highs average 29.0°C and nights cool to about 25.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 169 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes March a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 08 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Moanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo (45 km away). In March its highs average 29.2°C, about as warm as Cabinda, with 94 mm of rain.

Among the 47 cities listed in Angola, Cabinda ranks joint 17th of 47 for the warmest March highs and 26th of 47 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 47 cities is 28.2°C; Cabinda is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 28.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 169 mm to 187 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 1520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Cabinda climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Cabinda, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 28.1°C24.4°C24.4°C19023.912.412 h
February 28.7°C24.9°C24.9°C17221.612.312 h
March, selected 29.0°C25.3°C25.3°C16923.312.112 h
April 28.6°C25.0°C25.0°C18723.512.012 h
May 27.6°C24.1°C24.1°C7012.711.912 h
June 25.7°C21.9°C21.9°C3.30.711.812 h
July 24.5°C20.3°C20.3°C1.10.011.812 h
August 24.5°C20.5°C20.5°C3.10.511.912 h
September 25.7°C22.0°C22.0°C9.01.712.112 h
October 27.1°C23.7°C23.7°C5612.812.212 h
November 27.7°C24.3°C24.3°C17823.512.412 h
December 27.7°C24.2°C24.2°C19824.712.412 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

Distance from Cabinda

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Cabinda) is explained once on the Cabinda year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.