Climate averages 1991–2020

Brisbane weather
in March.

A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.0°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 19.9°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 93 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a warm month in Brisbane: daytime highs average 27.0°C and nights cool to about 19.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 93 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 16 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Logan City (21 km away). In March its highs average 26.7°C, about as warm as Brisbane, with 81 mm of rain.

Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Brisbane ranks 9th of 32 for the warmest March highs and 20th of 32 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 32 cities is 25.1°C; Brisbane is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 2.1°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 93 mm to 43 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

Brisbane climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Brisbane, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	28.8°C21.3°C	21.3°C	122	12.7	13.714 h
February	28.2°C21.2°C	21.2°C	128	12.8	13.113 h
March, selected	27.0°C19.9°C	19.9°C	93	12.1	12.312 h
April	24.9°C17.0°C	17.0°C	43	8.4	11.511 h
May	22.3°C13.9°C	13.9°C	60	7.1	10.811 h
June	20.0°C11.4°C	11.4°C	52	6.2	10.410 h
July	19.9°C10.1°C	10.1°C	28	4.1	10.611 h
August	21.5°C10.7°C	10.7°C	36	4.4	11.111 h
September	24.2°C13.6°C	13.6°C	35	5.4	11.912 h
October	25.7°C16.1°C	16.1°C	72	8.2	12.713 h
November	27.2°C18.3°C	18.3°C	84	9.7	13.513 h
December	28.3°C20.0°C	20.0°C	110	11.4	13.814 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 Brisbane

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