Climate averages 1991–2020
Ribeirão Preto weather
in March.
A hot, wet month: the joint 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Ribeirão Preto: daytime highs average 28.6°C and nights cool to about 20.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 158 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes March a wet month (the 8th 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 Sertãozinho (19 km away). In March its highs average 28.6°C, about as warm as Ribeirão Preto, with 143 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Ribeirão Preto ranks joint 170th of 448 for the warmest March highs and joint 243rd of 448 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 448 cities is 27.9°C; Ribeirão Preto is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 28.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 158 mm to 65 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
Ribeirão Preto climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.9°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 254 | 23.1 | 13.313 h |
| February | 29.1°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 177 | 18.5 | 12.813 h |
| March, selected | 28.6°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 158 | 18.5 | 12.212 h |
| April | 28.0°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 65 | 9.1 | 11.612 h |
| May | 26.0°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 45 | 5.6 | 11.111 h |
| June | 25.7°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 27 | 2.9 | 10.911 h |
| July | 26.2°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 19 | 2.3 | 11.011 h |
| August | 28.6°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 19 | 2.8 | 11.411 h |
| September | 30.4°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 67 | 6.8 | 12.012 h |
| October | 30.5°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 113 | 12.9 | 12.613 h |
| November | 29.2°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 168 | 17.4 | 13.113 h |
| December | 28.9°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 221 | 22.3 | 13.413 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
- Sertãozinho in MarchBrazil · 19 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 20.3°C · 143 mm rain
- Jaboticabal in MarchBrazil · 54 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 20.1°C · 169 mm rain
- Bebedouro in MarchBrazil · 74 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 20.6°C · 159 mm rain
- Matão in MarchBrazil · 75 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 20.3°C · 179 mm rain
- Araraquara in MarchBrazil · 78 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.5°C · 163 mm rain
- Franca in MarchBrazil · 83 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 18.3°C · 179 mm rain
- São Sebastião do Paraíso in MarchBrazil · 90 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 18.3°C · 190 mm rain
- São Carlos in MarchBrazil · 94 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.5°C · 152 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 Ribeirão Preto) is explained once on the Ribeirão Preto year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.