Climate averages 1991–2020
São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil weather
in March.
A warm, wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 21.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 149 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes March a wet month (the joint 8th 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 Palhoça (5 km away). In March its highs average 26.9°C, about as warm as São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil, with 157 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil ranks joint 319th of 448 for the warmest March highs and joint 212th of 448 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 448 cities is 27.9°C; São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil is 1.1°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 149 mm to 95 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
São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.7°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 234 | 22.5 | 13.714 h |
| February | 27.8°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 216 | 20.3 | 13.113 h |
| March, selected | 26.9°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 149 | 19.6 | 12.312 h |
| April | 25.2°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 95 | 12.0 | 11.511 h |
| May | 22.3°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 113 | 10.7 | 10.811 h |
| June | 20.5°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 96 | 9.4 | 10.410 h |
| July | 19.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 89 | 9.5 | 10.611 h |
| August | 20.6°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 90 | 9.4 | 11.111 h |
| September | 21.4°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 149 | 13.3 | 11.912 h |
| October | 23.1°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 143 | 15.6 | 12.713 h |
| November | 24.7°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 147 | 16.6 | 13.513 h |
| December | 26.9°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 167 | 18.8 | 13.814 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
- Palhoça in MarchBrazil · 5 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 20.8°C · 157 mm rain
- Florianópolis in MarchBrazil · 8 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 21.6°C · 125 mm rain
- Itapema in MarchBrazil · 58 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 21.2°C · 136 mm rain
- Brusque in MarchBrazil · 64 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 20.5°C · 148 mm rain
- Camboriú in MarchBrazil · 66 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 21.6°C · 147 mm rain
- Balneário Camboriú in MarchBrazil · 69 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 21.7°C · 147 mm rain
- Itajaí in MarchBrazil · 79 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 22.0°C · 147 mm rain
- Gaspar in MarchBrazil · 83 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 20.7°C · 148 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 São José) is explained once on the São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.