Climate averages 1991–2020

Cuenca weather
in March.

A mild, very wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 18.1°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 11.6°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 183 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a mild month in Cuenca: daytime highs average 18.1°C and nights cool to about 11.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 183 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes March a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 08 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Eloy Alfaro (124 km away). In March its highs average 28.8°C, 10.7°C warmer than Cuenca, with 455 mm of rain.

Among the 9 cities listed in Ecuador, Cuenca ranks 8th of 9 for the warmest March highs and 2nd of 9 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 9 cities is 23.7°C; Cuenca is 5.7°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 17.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 183 mm to 155 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

Cuenca climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Cuenca, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	18.1°C11.5°C	11.5°C	146	22.9	12.312 h
February	18.2°C11.7°C	11.7°C	174	23.5	12.212 h
March, selected	18.1°C11.6°C	11.6°C	183	27.3	12.112 h
April	17.8°C11.4°C	11.4°C	155	26.6	12.012 h
May	17.5°C11.0°C	11.0°C	100	22.0	12.012 h
June	16.5°C10.0°C	10.0°C	78	18.6	12.012 h
July	16.0°C9.2°C	9.2°C	74	17.7	12.012 h
August	16.8°C9.0°C	9.0°C	54	13.6	12.012 h
September	18.1°C9.8°C	9.8°C	62	15.3	12.112 h
October	18.6°C10.9°C	10.9°C	127	21.8	12.212 h
November	19.0°C11.4°C	11.4°C	174	23.3	12.212 h
December	18.3°C11.5°C	11.5°C	172	24.6	12.312 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 Cuenca

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 Cuenca) is explained once on the Cuenca year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.