Climate averages 1991–2020
Caloundra weather
in March.
A warm, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Caloundra: daytime highs average 25.9°C and nights cool to about 21.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 122 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes March a wet month (the 10th 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 Sunshine Coast (17 km away). In March its highs average 25.9°C, about as warm as Caloundra, with 122 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Caloundra ranks joint 12th of 32 for the warmest March highs and joint 26th of 32 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 32 cities is 25.1°C; Caloundra is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 2.0°C to 23.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 122 mm to 69 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
Caloundra climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.3°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 123 | 14.7 | 13.614 h |
| February | 26.9°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 150 | 15.4 | 13.013 h |
| March, selected | 25.9°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 122 | 16.0 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.9°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 69 | 12.7 | 11.511 h |
| May | 21.5°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 77 | 10.2 | 10.811 h |
| June | 19.6°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 62 | 8.3 | 10.510 h |
| July | 19.3°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 34 | 5.8 | 10.611 h |
| August | 20.6°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 43 | 5.1 | 11.211 h |
| September | 22.9°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 39 | 6.7 | 11.912 h |
| October | 24.2°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 80 | 8.8 | 12.713 h |
| November | 25.7°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 82 | 10.2 | 13.413 h |
| December | 26.9°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 117 | 12.0 | 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
- Sunshine Coast in MarchAustralia · 17 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 21.0°C · 122 mm rain
- Brisbane in MarchAustralia · 74 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 19.9°C · 93 mm rain
- Logan City in MarchAustralia · 93 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 20.0°C · 81 mm rain
- Gold Coast in MarchAustralia · 137 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 21.0°C · 116 mm rain
- Toowoomba in MarchAustralia · 143 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 15.9°C · 60 mm rain
- Bundaberg in MarchAustralia · 229 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 21.4°C · 98 mm rain
- Coffs Harbour in MarchAustralia · 388 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 19.6°C · 163 mm rain
- Rockhampton in MarchAustralia · 463 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.7°C · 75 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 Caloundra) is explained once on the Caloundra year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Sunshine Coast lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.