Climate averages 1991–2020
Valparai weather
in March.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Valparai: daytime highs average 29.0°C and nights cool to about 18.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 139 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes March a wet 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 Pollachi (37 km away). In March its highs average 34.9°C, 6.0°C warmer than Valparai, with 21 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Valparai ranks joint 612th of 692 for the warmest March highs and 684th of 692 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 692 cities is 32.4°C; Valparai is 3.4°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.8°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 139 mm to 331 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
Valparai climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.7°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 25 | 5.2 | 11.612 h |
| February | 28.3°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 46 | 6.8 | 11.812 h |
| March, selected | 29.0°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 139 | 15.2 | 12.112 h |
| April | 27.1°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 331 | 28.2 | 12.312 h |
| May | 25.4°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 372 | 29.9 | 12.613 h |
| June | 23.0°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 509 | 29.5 | 12.713 h |
| July | 22.3°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 611 | 30.7 | 12.713 h |
| August | 22.6°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 499 | 30.6 | 12.512 h |
| September | 23.5°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 356 | 28.2 | 12.212 h |
| October | 24.1°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 379 | 27.8 | 11.912 h |
| November | 24.5°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 238 | 21.1 | 11.712 h |
| December | 24.9°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 87 | 11.1 | 11.512 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
- Pollachi in MarchIndia · 37 kmHigh 34.9°C · Low 22.5°C · 21 mm rain
- Palakkad in MarchIndia · 59 kmHigh 36.9°C · Low 24.3°C · 22 mm rain
- Palani in MarchIndia · 64 kmHigh 35.1°C · Low 22.9°C · 18 mm rain
- Teni in MarchIndia · 67 kmHigh 34.6°C · Low 22.5°C · 17 mm rain
- Edattala in MarchIndia · 69 kmHigh 33.5°C · Low 24.5°C · 34 mm rain
- Coimbatore in MarchIndia · 75 kmHigh 34.6°C · Low 21.8°C · 21 mm rain
- Dharapuram in MarchIndia · 78 kmHigh 35.2°C · Low 22.3°C · 12 mm rain
- Idaiyarpālaiyam in MarchIndia · 79 kmHigh 34.0°C · Low 21.5°C · 21 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 Valparai) is explained once on the Valparai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.