Climate averages 1991–2020
Macapá weather
in March.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Macapá: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 23.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 387 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes March a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 07 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Santana (15 km away). In March its highs average 28.4°C, about as warm as Macapá, with 335 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Macapá ranks joint 210th of 448 for the warmest March highs and 431st of 448 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 448 cities is 27.9°C; Macapá is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs stay level at 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 387 mm to 384 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
Macapá climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.5°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 274 | 29.2 | 12.112 h |
| February | 28.0°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 325 | 27.0 | 12.112 h |
| March, selected | 28.1°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 387 | 29.2 | 12.112 h |
| April | 28.1°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 384 | 29.2 | 12.112 h |
| May | 28.4°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 357 | 29.6 | 12.112 h |
| June | 28.7°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 205 | 27.3 | 12.112 h |
| July | 29.0°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 155 | 25.8 | 12.112 h |
| August | 30.1°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 73 | 17.9 | 12.112 h |
| September | 31.2°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 26 | 8.7 | 12.112 h |
| October | 31.8°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 17 | 4.5 | 12.112 h |
| November | 31.6°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 35 | 8.5 | 12.112 h |
| December | 30.1°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 128 | 22.8 | 12.112 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
- Santana in MarchBrazil · 15 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 23.3°C · 335 mm rain
- Breves in MarchBrazil · 202 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 23.3°C · 397 mm rain
- Cametá in MarchBrazil · 308 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 23.6°C · 459 mm rain
- Abaetetuba in MarchBrazil · 312 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 23.8°C · 393 mm rain
- Barcarena in MarchBrazil · 321 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 23.9°C · 393 mm rain
- Belém in MarchBrazil · 330 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 24.1°C · 404 mm rain
- Moju in MarchBrazil · 333 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 23.1°C · 465 mm rain
- Ananindeua in MarchBrazil · 338 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 23.7°C · 511 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 Macapá) is explained once on the Macapá year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.