Climate averages 1991–2020
Viña del Mar weather
in March.
A warm, very dry month: the 3rd warmest and the 5th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Viña del Mar: daytime highs average 22.6°C and nights cool to about 14.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 2.9 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes March a very dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 19 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Valparaíso (7 km away). In March its highs average 20.4°C, 2.1°C cooler than Viña del Mar, with 2.3 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Viña del Mar ranks joint 26th of 40 for the warmest March highs and joint 4th of 40 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 40 cities is 23.9°C; Viña del Mar is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 2.2°C to 20.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 2.9 mm to 14 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
Viña del Mar climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.6°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.114 h |
| February | 23.3°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 1.0 | 0.2 | 13.313 h |
| March, selected | 22.6°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 2.9 | 0.6 | 12.312 h |
| April | 20.4°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 14 | 1.8 | 11.311 h |
| May | 18.2°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 51 | 4.0 | 10.410 h |
| June | 16.4°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 106 | 6.3 | 10.010 h |
| July | 15.6°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 60 | 5.0 | 10.210 h |
| August | 16.2°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 53 | 4.6 | 10.911 h |
| September | 17.3°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 24 | 2.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 18.9°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 13 | 1.6 | 12.913 h |
| November | 20.9°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 2.4 | 0.6 | 13.814 h |
| December | 22.4°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 2.5 | 0.3 | 14.314 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
- Valparaíso in MarchChile · 7 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 15.4°C · 2.3 mm rain
- Quilpué in MarchChile · 11 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 13.7°C · 2.9 mm rain
- San Antonio, Chile in MarchChile · 64 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 13.4°C · 3.5 mm rain
- Lampa in MarchChile · 69 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 15.8°C · 11 mm rain
- Colina in MarchChile · 84 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 16.9°C · 14 mm rain
- Quilicura in MarchChile · 87 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 15.4°C · 14 mm rain
- Peñaflor in MarchChile · 90 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 14.1°C · 10 mm rain
- Maipú in MarchChile · 91 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 14.5°C · 8.6 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 Viña del Mar) is explained once on the Viña del Mar year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Quilpué lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.