Climate averages 1991–2020

Quibdó weather
in March.

A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 29.5°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 23.1°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 467 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a hot month in Quibdó: daytime highs average 29.5°C and nights cool to about 23.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 467 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Caldas (122 km away). In March its highs average 23.3°C, 6.2°C cooler than Quibdó, with 214 mm of rain.

Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Quibdó ranks joint 20th of 46 for the warmest March highs and 46th of 46 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 46 cities is 27.1°C; Quibdó is 2.4°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 29.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 467 mm to 609 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Quibdó climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Quibdó, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	28.6°C22.8°C	22.8°C	388	26.3	11.812 h
February	29.2°C23.0°C	23.0°C	324	23.5	11.912 h
March, selected	29.5°C23.1°C	23.1°C	467	27.2	12.112 h
April	29.0°C23.1°C	23.1°C	609	28.5	12.212 h
May	28.4°C23.0°C	23.0°C	753	30.0	12.412 h
June	27.9°C22.8°C	22.8°C	797	29.2	12.412 h
July	27.8°C22.6°C	22.6°C	744	30.1	12.412 h
August	27.9°C22.6°C	22.6°C	818	30.2	12.312 h
September	27.8°C22.6°C	22.6°C	754	29.5	12.212 h
October	27.7°C22.5°C	22.5°C	866	29.9	12.012 h
November	27.5°C22.5°C	22.5°C	812	28.9	11.912 h
December	27.8°C22.6°C	22.6°C	610	27.7	11.812 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

Distance from Quibdó

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Quibdó) is explained once on the Quibdó year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.