Climate averages 1991–2020

Franca weather
in March.

A warm, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 26.2°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 18.3°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 179 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a warm month in Franca: daytime highs average 26.2°C and nights cool to about 18.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 179 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes March a wet month (the 8th 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 São Sebastião do Paraíso (60 km away). In March its highs average 26.0°C, about as warm as Franca, with 190 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Franca ranks joint 364th of 448 for the warmest March highs and joint 301st of 448 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 448 cities is 27.9°C; Franca is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 179 mm to 72 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

Franca climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Franca, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	26.5°C18.8°C	18.8°C	280	24.3	13.213 h
February	26.8°C18.7°C	18.7°C	208	20.1	12.813 h
March, selected	26.2°C18.3°C	18.3°C	179	20.9	12.212 h
April	25.6°C16.8°C	16.8°C	72	10.3	11.612 h
May	23.8°C14.0°C	14.0°C	40	5.4	11.211 h
June	23.3°C12.5°C	12.5°C	24	2.6	10.911 h
July	23.7°C12.2°C	12.2°C	13	2.0	11.011 h
August	25.9°C13.7°C	13.7°C	15	2.6	11.411 h
September	27.8°C16.4°C	16.4°C	64	7.5	12.012 h
October	27.9°C18.0°C	18.0°C	116	14.3	12.613 h
November	26.4°C18.1°C	18.1°C	189	20.0	13.113 h
December	26.4°C18.6°C	18.6°C	265	25.3	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

Distance from Franca

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 Franca) is explained once on the Franca year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.