Climate averages 1991–2020

Cela weather
in March.

A warm, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 26.0°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 16.9°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 166 mm 23 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a warm month in Cela: daytime highs average 26.0°C and nights cool to about 16.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 166 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes March a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 10 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gabela (103 km away). In March its highs average 25.7°C, about as warm as Cela, with 258 mm of rain.

Among the 47 cities listed in Angola, Cela ranks 37th of 47 for the warmest March highs and 24th of 47 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 47 cities is 28.2°C; Cela is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 26.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 166 mm to 84 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Cela climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Cela, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	25.3°C16.5°C	16.5°C	133	18.9	12.713 h
February	26.1°C16.8°C	16.8°C	114	16.4	12.512 h
March, selected	26.0°C16.9°C	16.9°C	166	22.6	12.212 h
April	26.3°C16.3°C	16.3°C	84	15.0	11.912 h
May	28.0°C14.6°C	14.6°C	4.1	1.3	11.612 h
June	28.2°C12.3°C	12.3°C	0.1	0.0	11.511 h
July	28.8°C12.1°C	12.1°C	0	0.0	11.512 h
August	30.5°C14.4°C	14.4°C	2.2	0.7	11.712 h
September	30.3°C16.2°C	16.2°C	36	9.1	12.012 h
October	27.6°C17.4°C	17.4°C	145	26.1	12.312 h
November	25.6°C17.2°C	17.2°C	191	26.6	12.613 h
December	25.0°C16.8°C	16.8°C	158	22.2	12.813 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 Cela

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 Cela) is explained once on the Cela year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.