Climate averages 1991–2020
Sacaba weather
in March.
A mild, wet month: the joint 9th 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 Sacaba: daytime highs average 19.5°C and nights cool to about 11.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 161 mm of rain on roughly 23 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 Cochabamba (13 km away). In March its highs average 20.6°C, 1.1°C warmer than Sacaba, with 124 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Bolivia, Sacaba ranks 9th of 14 for the warmest March highs and 10th of 14 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 14 cities is 21.4°C; Sacaba is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 19.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 161 mm to 80 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
Sacaba climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.7°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 230 | 27.1 | 13.013 h |
| February | 19.6°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 212 | 25.0 | 12.713 h |
| March, selected | 19.5°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 161 | 23.0 | 12.212 h |
| April | 19.7°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 80 | 13.8 | 11.712 h |
| May | 19.8°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 37 | 7.4 | 11.311 h |
| June | 19.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 28 | 6.3 | 11.111 h |
| July | 18.9°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 32 | 7.2 | 11.211 h |
| August | 19.5°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 49 | 9.7 | 11.512 h |
| September | 20.0°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 59 | 14.6 | 12.012 h |
| October | 20.8°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 78 | 18.0 | 12.512 h |
| November | 21.1°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 103 | 18.6 | 12.913 h |
| December | 20.6°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 173 | 24.8 | 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
- Cochabamba in MarchBolivia · 13 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 12.4°C · 124 mm rain
- Quillacollo in MarchBolivia · 25 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 12.2°C · 124 mm rain
- Oruro in MarchBolivia · 129 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 3.8°C · 84 mm rain
- Sucre in MarchBolivia · 199 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 10.1°C · 138 mm rain
- Potosí in MarchBolivia · 245 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 4.0°C · 108 mm rain
- La Paz in MarchBolivia · 246 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 5.3°C · 89 mm rain
- Viacha in MarchBolivia · 254 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 3.7°C · 96 mm rain
- Montero in MarchBolivia · 296 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 Sacaba) is explained once on the Sacaba year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.