Climate averages 1991–2020

Patos de Minas weather
in March.

A warm, wet month: the joint 6th 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 19.1°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 172 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Patos de Minas · average highYear overview

March is a warm month in Patos de Minas: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 19.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 172 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 13 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Patrocínio (64 km away). In March its highs average 26.3°C, 0.6°C cooler than Patos de Minas, with 186 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Patos de Minas ranks joint 319th of 448 for the warmest March highs and joint 277th of 448 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 448 cities is 27.9°C; Patos de Minas is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 26.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 172 mm to 65 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3000

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

Every month, side by side

Patos de Minas climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Patos de Minas, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 27.3°C19.5°C19.5°C23021.013.113 h
February 27.6°C19.4°C19.4°C16317.012.713 h
March, selected 26.9°C19.1°C19.1°C17220.312.212 h
April 26.5°C18.0°C18.0°C6510.411.712 h
May 25.3°C15.7°C15.7°C234.411.311 h
June 24.7°C14.4°C14.4°C8.71.311.011 h
July 25.0°C14.3°C14.3°C3.70.611.111 h
August 26.9°C15.4°C15.4°C7.01.511.511 h
September 28.8°C17.7°C17.7°C355.612.012 h
October 28.9°C19.1°C19.1°C9112.312.513 h
November 26.9°C19.0°C19.0°C20521.213.013 h
December 27.0°C19.3°C19.3°C25323.613.213 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 Patos de Minas

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 Patos de Minas) is explained once on the Patos de Minas year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.