Climate averages 1991–2020
Apartadó weather
in March.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Apartadó: daytime highs average 30.2°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 97 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes March a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 04 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chigorodó (25 km away). In March its highs average 30.4°C, about as warm as Apartadó, with 141 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Apartadó ranks 15th of 46 for the warmest March highs and 16th of 46 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 46 cities is 27.1°C; Apartadó is 3.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 29.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 97 mm to 174 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
Apartadó climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.5°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 75 | 19.8 | 11.712 h |
| February | 30.1°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 61 | 14.8 | 11.912 h |
| March, selected | 30.2°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 97 | 18.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.8°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 174 | 25.5 | 12.312 h |
| May | 29.4°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 258 | 28.6 | 12.512 h |
| June | 29.3°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 245 | 27.8 | 12.613 h |
| July | 29.4°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 291 | 29.2 | 12.513 h |
| August | 29.5°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 253 | 29.2 | 12.412 h |
| September | 29.4°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 199 | 27.4 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.1°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 177 | 26.4 | 12.012 h |
| November | 28.8°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 179 | 24.3 | 11.812 h |
| December | 29.1°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 137 | 25.0 | 11.712 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
- Chigorodó in MarchColombia · 25 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 23.7°C · 141 mm rain
- Montería in MarchColombia · 127 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 24.6°C · 71 mm rain
- Montelíbano in MarchColombia · 133 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 24.7°C · 89 mm rain
- Cereté in MarchColombia · 144 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 24.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Bello in MarchColombia · 208 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 15.6°C · 268 mm rain
- Sincelejo in MarchColombia · 208 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 23.6°C · 74 mm rain
- Medellín in MarchColombia · 216 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 15.2°C · 268 mm rain
- Caldas in MarchColombia · 227 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 13.5°C · 214 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 Apartadó) is explained once on the Apartadó year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.