Climate averages 1991–2020
Cochabamba weather
in March.
A mild, wet month: the 11th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Cochabamba: daytime highs average 20.6°C and nights cool to about 12.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 124 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 12 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Quillacollo (13 km away). In March its highs average 20.7°C, about as warm as Cochabamba, with 124 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Bolivia, Cochabamba ranks 8th of 14 for the warmest March highs and joint 6th of 14 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 14 cities is 21.4°C; Cochabamba is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 20.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 124 mm to 45 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
Cochabamba climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20.8°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 187 | 23.2 | 13.013 h |
| February | 20.7°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 179 | 22.5 | 12.713 h |
| March, selected | 20.6°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 124 | 18.6 | 12.212 h |
| April | 20.9°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 45 | 8.4 | 11.712 h |
| May | 21.2°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 12 | 2.8 | 11.311 h |
| June | 20.8°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 7.1 | 1.8 | 11.111 h |
| July | 20.5°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 11 | 2.0 | 11.211 h |
| August | 21.0°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 19 | 3.3 | 11.512 h |
| September | 21.6°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 23 | 5.4 | 12.012 h |
| October | 22.4°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 40 | 9.5 | 12.512 h |
| November | 22.7°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 67 | 12.7 | 12.913 h |
| December | 21.8°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 132 | 19.9 | 13.113 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
- Quillacollo in MarchBolivia · 13 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 12.2°C · 124 mm rain
- Sacaba in MarchBolivia · 13 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 11.5°C · 161 mm rain
- Oruro in MarchBolivia · 119 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 3.8°C · 84 mm rain
- Sucre in MarchBolivia · 207 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 10.1°C · 138 mm rain
- La Paz in MarchBolivia · 233 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 5.3°C · 89 mm rain
- Viacha in MarchBolivia · 242 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 3.7°C · 96 mm rain
- Potosí in MarchBolivia · 249 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 4.0°C · 108 mm rain
- Montero in MarchBolivia · 309 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 22.0°C · 155 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 Cochabamba) is explained once on the Cochabamba year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Quillacollo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.