Climate averages 1991–2020

Criciúma weather
in March.

A warm, wet month: the 4th warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 26.4°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 19.0°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 129 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a warm month in Criciúma: daytime highs average 26.4°C and nights cool to about 19.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 129 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes March a wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 17 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Araranguá (31 km away). In March its highs average 25.7°C, 0.7°C cooler than Criciúma, with 136 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Criciúma ranks joint 353rd of 448 for the warmest March highs and joint 123rd of 448 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 448 cities is 27.9°C; Criciúma is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 1.8°C to 24.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 129 mm to 97 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Criciúma climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Criciúma, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	27.2°C20.0°C	20.0°C	169	18.3	13.714 h
February	27.2°C20.1°C	20.1°C	141	17.7	13.113 h
March, selected	26.4°C19.0°C	19.0°C	129	16.8	12.312 h
April	24.5°C16.6°C	16.6°C	97	11.3	11.411 h
May	21.4°C13.4°C	13.4°C	129	10.8	10.711 h
June	19.8°C11.3°C	11.3°C	98	9.2	10.310 h
July	19.2°C10.4°C	10.4°C	102	9.7	10.510 h
August	20.7°C11.3°C	11.3°C	100	9.4	11.111 h
September	21.4°C13.3°C	13.3°C	123	11.6	11.912 h
October	23.1°C15.6°C	15.6°C	139	14.4	12.813 h
November	24.7°C16.9°C	16.9°C	123	13.5	13.514 h
December	26.7°C18.9°C	18.9°C	127	14.6	13.914 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

Distance from Criciúma

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Criciúma) is explained once on the Criciúma year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.