Climate averages 1991–2020
Contagem weather
in March.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Contagem: daytime highs average 26.1°C and nights cool to about 17.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 147 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 13 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ibirité (10 km away). In March its highs average 26.5°C, about as warm as Contagem, with 147 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Contagem ranks joint 376th of 448 for the warmest March highs and joint 196th of 448 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 448 cities is 27.9°C; Contagem is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 25.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 147 mm to 55 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
Contagem climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.3°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 218 | 18.0 | 13.213 h |
| February | 26.9°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 120 | 13.0 | 12.813 h |
| March, selected | 26.1°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 147 | 16.8 | 12.212 h |
| April | 25.2°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 55 | 9.8 | 11.712 h |
| May | 23.4°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 31 | 5.0 | 11.211 h |
| June | 22.7°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 9.7 | 1.7 | 10.911 h |
| July | 23.0°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 4.7 | 0.8 | 11.011 h |
| August | 24.6°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 11 | 2.0 | 11.411 h |
| September | 26.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 47 | 6.5 | 12.012 h |
| October | 26.8°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 81 | 11.6 | 12.513 h |
| November | 25.5°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 184 | 18.2 | 13.013 h |
| December | 25.7°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 260 | 22.0 | 13.313 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
- Ibirité in MarchBrazil · 10 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.2°C · 147 mm rain
- Belo Horizonte in MarchBrazil · 12 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.0°C · 147 mm rain
- Betim in MarchBrazil · 16 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.1°C · 156 mm rain
- Ribeirão das Neves in MarchBrazil · 19 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 18.9°C · 121 mm rain
- Nova Lima in MarchBrazil · 22 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 19.0°C · 156 mm rain
- Sabará in MarchBrazil · 26 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 19.1°C · 156 mm rain
- Santa Luzia in MarchBrazil · 28 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 19.0°C · 121 mm rain
- Vespasiano in MarchBrazil · 30 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 19.3°C · 121 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 Contagem) is explained once on the Contagem year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Belo Horizonte and Ibirité lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.