Climate averages 1991–2020

Ribeirão das Neves weather
in March.

A warm, wet month: the 5th 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 18.9°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 121 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Ribeirão das Neves · average highYear overview

March is a warm month in Ribeirão das Neves: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 18.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 121 mm of rain on roughly 14 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 Contagem (19 km away). In March its highs average 26.1°C, 0.9°C cooler than Ribeirão das Neves, with 147 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Ribeirão das Neves ranks joint 319th of 448 for the warmest March highs and joint 84th of 448 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 448 cities is 27.9°C; Ribeirão das Neves is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 26.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 121 mm to 44 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. 1015202530 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 2500

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

Every month, side by side

Ribeirão das Neves climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Ribeirão das Neves, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 27.2°C19.3°C19.3°C18816.613.213 h
February 27.7°C19.3°C19.3°C10311.412.813 h
March, selected 26.9°C18.9°C18.9°C12114.412.212 h
April 26.1°C17.4°C17.4°C448.111.712 h
May 24.3°C14.7°C14.7°C264.111.211 h
June 23.6°C13.2°C13.2°C7.01.311.011 h
July 23.9°C13.0°C13.0°C3.50.611.111 h
August 25.5°C14.1°C14.1°C8.11.511.411 h
September 27.2°C16.3°C16.3°C405.612.012 h
October 27.8°C18.0°C18.0°C729.912.513 h
November 26.4°C18.4°C18.4°C16717.213.013 h
December 26.6°C19.0°C19.0°C22520.513.313 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 Ribeirão das Neves

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 Ribeirão das Neves) is explained once on the Ribeirão das Neves year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Vespasiano and Lagoa Santa lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.