Climate averages 1991–2020
Sunshine Coast weather
in March.
A warm, wet month: the joint 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 Sunshine Coast: daytime highs average 25.9°C and nights cool to about 21.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 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 Caloundra (17 km away). In March its highs average 25.9°C, about as warm as Sunshine Coast, with 122 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Sunshine Coast 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; Sunshine Coast 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
Sunshine Coast climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.4°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°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 122 | 16.0 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.9°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 69 | 12.7 | 11.511 h |
| May | 21.6°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 | 19.4°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 34 | 5.8 | 10.611 h |
| August | 20.7°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 43 | 5.1 | 11.211 h |
| September | 23.1°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 39 | 6.7 | 11.912 h |
| October | 24.4°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 80 | 8.8 | 12.713 h |
| November | 25.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 82 | 10.2 | 13.413 h |
| December | 27.0°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
- Caloundra in MarchAustralia · 17 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 21.1°C · 122 mm rain
- Brisbane in MarchAustralia · 90 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 19.9°C · 93 mm rain
- Logan City in MarchAustralia · 109 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 20.0°C · 81 mm rain
- Toowoomba in MarchAustralia · 150 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 15.9°C · 60 mm rain
- Gold Coast in MarchAustralia · 153 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 21.0°C · 116 mm rain
- Bundaberg in MarchAustralia · 212 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 21.4°C · 98 mm rain
- Coffs Harbour in MarchAustralia · 405 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 19.6°C · 163 mm rain
- Rockhampton in MarchAustralia · 447 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 Sunshine Coast) is explained once on the Sunshine Coast year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Caloundra lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.