Climate averages 1991–2020
Bohicon weather
in March.
A very hot, moderately wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a very hot month in Bohicon: daytime highs average 34.6°C and nights cool to about 25.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 55 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Abomey (8 km away). In March its highs average 34.2°C, about as warm as Bohicon, with 55 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Benin, Bohicon ranks 3rd of 8 for the warmest March highs and joint 4th of 8 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 8 cities is 33.0°C; Bohicon is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 33.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 55 mm to 89 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
Bohicon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34.7°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 9.8 | 2.8 | 11.812 h |
| February | 35.4°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 24 | 5.7 | 11.912 h |
| March, selected | 34.6°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 55 | 12.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 33.2°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 89 | 16.6 | 12.312 h |
| May | 31.4°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 132 | 21.9 | 12.412 h |
| June | 29.4°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 153 | 24.2 | 12.513 h |
| July | 28.4°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 142 | 23.9 | 12.512 h |
| August | 28.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 152 | 21.9 | 12.412 h |
| September | 28.9°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 160 | 23.6 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.8°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 105 | 19.1 | 12.012 h |
| November | 31.6°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 26 | 7.5 | 11.812 h |
| December | 33.7°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 9.3 | 2.3 | 11.712 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
- Abomey in MarchBenin · 8 kmHigh 34.2°C · Low 24.6°C · 55 mm rain
- Godomè in MarchBenin · 93 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 26.6°C · 66 mm rain
- Porto-Novo in MarchBenin · 96 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 26.1°C · 73 mm rain
- Cotonou in MarchBenin · 98 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 26.7°C · 48 mm rain
- Ekpé in MarchBenin · 102 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 26.6°C · 73 mm rain
- Atakpamé in MarchTogo · 110 kmHigh 34.2°C · Low 23.5°C · 45 mm rain
- Ifo in MarchNigeria · 131 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 24.9°C · 96 mm rain
- Igbo-Ora in MarchNigeria · 138 kmHigh 34.0°C · Low 24.8°C · 50 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 Bohicon) is explained once on the Bohicon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Abomey lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.