Climate averages 1991–2020
Malappuram weather
in March.
A very hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a very hot month in Malappuram: daytime highs average 34.2°C and nights cool to about 24.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 04 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Manjeri (10 km away). In March its highs average 33.9°C, about as warm as Malappuram, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Malappuram ranks joint 225th of 692 for the warmest March highs and joint 625th of 692 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 692 cities is 32.4°C; Malappuram is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 2.0°C to 32.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 37 mm to 130 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
Malappuram climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32.6°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 5.9 | 1.2 | 11.612 h |
| February | 34.0°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 7.0 | 2.0 | 11.812 h |
| March, selected | 34.2°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 37 | 8.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 32.3°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 130 | 21.4 | 12.412 h |
| May | 30.5°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 267 | 24.3 | 12.613 h |
| June | 27.8°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 572 | 29.0 | 12.813 h |
| July | 27.1°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 515 | 29.8 | 12.713 h |
| August | 27.4°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 370 | 27.0 | 12.512 h |
| September | 28.3°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 248 | 22.4 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.7°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 282 | 25.0 | 11.912 h |
| November | 29.2°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 147 | 17.3 | 11.612 h |
| December | 30.5°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 33 | 5.2 | 11.511 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
- Manjeri in MarchIndia · 10 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 23.6°C · 37 mm rain
- Ponnāni in MarchIndia · 35 kmHigh 34.2°C · Low 25.2°C · 48 mm rain
- Kozhikode in MarchIndia · 40 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 24.6°C · 27 mm rain
- Thrissur in MarchIndia · 60 kmHigh 34.3°C · Low 25.2°C · 47 mm rain
- Koyilandy in MarchIndia · 61 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 24.9°C · 23 mm rain
- Palakkad in MarchIndia · 69 kmHigh 36.9°C · Low 24.3°C · 22 mm rain
- Ooty in MarchIndia · 79 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 12.1°C · 44 mm rain
- Badagara in MarchIndia · 82 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 24.2°C · 30 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 Malappuram) is explained once on the Malappuram year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Manjeri lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.