Climate averages 1991–2020
San Cristóbal weather
in March.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 8th 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 San Cristóbal: daytime highs average 28.5°C and nights cool to about 20.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 02 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Santo Domingo Oeste (15 km away). In March its highs average 28.5°C, about as warm as San Cristóbal, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in the Dominican Republic, San Cristóbal ranks joint 4th of 14 for the warmest March highs and joint 8th of 14 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 14 cities is 28.3°C; San Cristóbal is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 29.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 37 mm to 62 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
San Cristóbal climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.6°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 32 | 11.8 | 11.211 h |
| February | 28.0°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 30 | 10.5 | 11.512 h |
| March, selected | 28.5°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 37 | 11.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 29.1°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 62 | 15.2 | 12.513 h |
| May | 29.2°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 120 | 21.3 | 13.013 h |
| June | 29.6°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 107 | 21.6 | 13.213 h |
| July | 30.2°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 108 | 21.1 | 13.113 h |
| August | 30.2°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 129 | 21.3 | 12.813 h |
| September | 29.9°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 120 | 21.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 29.3°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 115 | 21.5 | 11.712 h |
| November | 28.4°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 75 | 15.9 | 11.311 h |
| December | 27.9°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 39 | 11.4 | 11.011 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
- Santo Domingo Oeste in MarchDominican Republic · 15 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 20.1°C · 37 mm rain
- Santo Domingo in MarchDominican Republic · 23 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 20.7°C · 37 mm rain
- Santo Domingo Este in MarchDominican Republic · 28 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 21.3°C · 34 mm rain
- Bonao in MarchDominican Republic · 67 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 19.4°C · 115 mm rain
- San Pedro de Macorís in MarchDominican Republic · 84 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 22.7°C · 20 mm rain
- San Francisco de Macorís in MarchDominican Republic · 99 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 19.2°C · 35 mm rain
- La Vega in MarchDominican Republic · 100 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 19.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Santa Cruz de Barahona in MarchDominican Republic · 107 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 21.6°C · 19 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 San Cristóbal) is explained once on the San Cristóbal year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Santo Domingo and Santo Domingo Oeste lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.