Climate averages 1991–2020

Maricá weather
in March.

A hot, wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the joint 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.0°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 23.5°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 123 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a hot month in Maricá: daytime highs average 29.0°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 123 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes March a wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 14 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Itaboraí (20 km away). In March its highs average 28.6°C, about as warm as Maricá, with 220 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Maricá ranks joint 137th of 448 for the warmest March highs and joint 95th of 448 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 448 cities is 27.9°C; Maricá is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 1.6°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 123 mm to 78 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

Maricá climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Maricá, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	29.9°C23.9°C	23.9°C	126	12.2	13.413 h
February	30.4°C24.1°C	24.1°C	85	9.8	12.913 h
March, selected	29.0°C23.5°C	23.5°C	123	14.3	12.212 h
April	27.4°C22.0°C	22.0°C	78	12.2	11.612 h
May	25.2°C19.7°C	19.7°C	77	11.6	11.011 h
June	24.7°C18.6°C	18.6°C	42	7.4	10.811 h
July	24.4°C17.9°C	17.9°C	45	7.8	10.911 h
August	25.1°C18.2°C	18.2°C	38	7.7	11.311 h
September	26.0°C19.2°C	19.2°C	61	9.8	11.912 h
October	27.1°C20.6°C	20.6°C	72	10.3	12.613 h
November	27.3°C21.5°C	21.5°C	113	13.8	13.213 h
December	29.0°C23.0°C	23.0°C	123	13.3	13.514 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 Maricá

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