Climate averages 1991–2020

Palhoça weather
in March.

A warm, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 26.9°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 20.8°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 157 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a warm month in Palhoça: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 20.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 157 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 16 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil (5 km away). In March its highs average 26.9°C, about as warm as Palhoça, with 149 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Palhoça ranks joint 319th of 448 for the warmest March highs and joint 241st of 448 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 448 cities is 27.9°C; Palhoça is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 1.7°C to 25.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 157 mm to 100 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

Palhoça climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Palhoça, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	27.8°C21.6°C	21.6°C	241	22.5	13.714 h
February	27.8°C21.8°C	21.8°C	221	20.9	13.113 h
March, selected	26.9°C20.8°C	20.8°C	157	20.3	12.312 h
April	25.2°C18.6°C	18.6°C	100	12.5	11.511 h
May	22.2°C15.5°C	15.5°C	119	11.0	10.811 h
June	20.6°C13.4°C	13.4°C	96	9.3	10.410 h
July	19.9°C12.5°C	12.5°C	88	9.6	10.611 h
August	20.9°C13.3°C	13.3°C	89	9.2	11.111 h
September	21.6°C15.1°C	15.1°C	147	13.3	11.912 h
October	23.3°C17.1°C	17.1°C	145	15.8	12.713 h
November	24.8°C18.5°C	18.5°C	154	16.2	13.513 h
December	27.0°C20.4°C	20.4°C	169	18.7	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 Palhoça

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