Climate averages 1991–2020
Tulcán weather
in March.
A mild, very wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Tulcán: daytime highs average 16.6°C and nights cool to about 9.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 251 mm of rain on roughly 29 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 Ipiales (9 km away). In March its highs average 16.3°C, about as warm as Tulcán, with 251 mm of rain.
Among the 9 cities listed in Ecuador, Tulcán ranks 9th of 9 for the warmest March highs and 7th of 9 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 9 cities is 23.7°C; Tulcán is 7.1°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 16.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 251 mm to 258 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
Tulcán climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.3°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 220 | 27.5 | 12.112 h |
| February | 16.6°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 207 | 25.1 | 12.112 h |
| March, selected | 16.6°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 251 | 29.4 | 12.112 h |
| April | 16.5°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 258 | 29.2 | 12.112 h |
| May | 16.2°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 200 | 29.8 | 12.212 h |
| June | 15.4°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 160 | 27.4 | 12.212 h |
| July | 15.0°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 147 | 27.0 | 12.212 h |
| August | 15.6°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 94 | 22.7 | 12.112 h |
| September | 16.5°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 109 | 21.9 | 12.112 h |
| October | 16.8°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 230 | 27.4 | 12.112 h |
| November | 16.7°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 290 | 28.0 | 12.112 h |
| December | 16.4°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 269 | 29.1 | 12.112 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
- Ipiales in MarchColombia · 9 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 9.6°C · 251 mm rain
- Pasto in MarchColombia · 66 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 11.1°C · 235 mm rain
- Ibarra in MarchEcuador · 69 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 11.7°C · 185 mm rain
- Tumaco in MarchColombia · 162 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 24.3°C · 293 mm rain
- Santo Domingo de los Colorados in MarchEcuador · 201 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 20.1°C · 414 mm rain
- Esmeraldas in MarchEcuador · 216 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 23.8°C · 203 mm rain
- Pitalito in MarchColombia · 218 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.3°C · 315 mm rain
- Popayán in MarchColombia · 218 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 14.8°C · 299 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 Tulcán) is explained once on the Tulcán year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ipiales lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.