Climate averages 1991–2020
Chitato weather
in March.
A hot, very wet month: the 9th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Chitato: daytime highs average 28.7°C and nights cool to about 20.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 190 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 09 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dundo (12 km away). In March its highs average 29.1°C, about as warm as Chitato, with 190 mm of rain.
Among the 47 cities listed in Angola, Chitato ranks 20th of 47 for the warmest March highs and joint 28th of 47 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 47 cities is 28.2°C; Chitato is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 28.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 190 mm to 178 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
Chitato climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.2°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 170 | 23.1 | 12.512 h |
| February | 28.8°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 149 | 20.4 | 12.312 h |
| March, selected | 28.7°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 190 | 24.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 28.9°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 178 | 21.9 | 11.912 h |
| May | 31.2°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 36 | 6.8 | 11.812 h |
| June | 32.7°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 4.2 | 0.8 | 11.712 h |
| July | 33.3°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 11.712 h |
| August | 32.6°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 31 | 6.0 | 11.912 h |
| September | 30.4°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 106 | 16.9 | 12.112 h |
| October | 28.9°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 170 | 24.3 | 12.312 h |
| November | 27.9°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 207 | 26.6 | 12.412 h |
| December | 27.6°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 212 | 26.1 | 12.513 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
- Dundo in MarchAngola · 12 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 20.5°C · 190 mm rain
- Tshikapa in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 99 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 22.0°C · 163 mm rain
- Lucapa in MarchAngola · 124 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 19.1°C · 198 mm rain
- Kananga in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 243 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.0°C · 176 mm rain
- Saurimo in MarchAngola · 265 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 18.4°C · 210 mm rain
- Mweka in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 287 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 21.5°C · 168 mm rain
- Idiofa in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 289 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 20.6°C · 162 mm rain
- Mwene-Ditu in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 302 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 19.3°C · 186 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 Chitato) is explained once on the Chitato year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Dundo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.