Climate averages 1991–2020
Cali weather
in March.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Cali: daytime highs average 26.1°C and nights cool to about 19.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 302 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 06 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yumbo (17 km away). In March its highs average 25.1°C, 1.0°C cooler than Cali, with 302 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Cali ranks 28th of 46 for the warmest March highs and joint 42nd of 46 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 46 cities is 27.1°C; Cali is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 26.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 302 mm to 296 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
Cali climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.6°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 296 | 24.5 | 11.912 h |
| February | 26.0°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 263 | 23.7 | 12.012 h |
| March, selected | 26.1°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 302 | 25.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 26.0°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 296 | 23.5 | 12.212 h |
| May | 26.0°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 210 | 21.1 | 12.312 h |
| June | 26.3°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 125 | 15.4 | 12.312 h |
| July | 26.4°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 116 | 14.4 | 12.312 h |
| August | 26.6°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 143 | 15.4 | 12.212 h |
| September | 26.2°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 207 | 20.7 | 12.112 h |
| October | 25.4°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 376 | 25.9 | 12.012 h |
| November | 24.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 463 | 27.1 | 12.012 h |
| December | 25.3°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 364 | 25.7 | 11.912 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
- Yumbo in MarchColombia · 17 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 18.8°C · 302 mm rain
- Popayán in MarchColombia · 111 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 14.8°C · 299 mm rain
- Neiva in MarchColombia · 149 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 21.9°C · 173 mm rain
- Pitalito in MarchColombia · 183 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.3°C · 315 mm rain
- Ibagué in MarchColombia · 184 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.5°C · 304 mm rain
- Florencia in MarchColombia · 226 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 18.9°C · 193 mm rain
- Quibdó in MarchColombia · 252 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.1°C · 467 mm rain
- Fusagasugá in MarchColombia · 260 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 16.3°C · 219 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 Cali) is explained once on the Cali year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Yumbo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.