Climate averages 1991–2020

Sungailiat weather
in March.

A hot, very wet month: the 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.1°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 24.8°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 251 mm 26 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Sungailiat · average highYear overview

March is a hot month in Sungailiat: daytime highs average 29.1°C and nights cool to about 24.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 251 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 07 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Pangkalpinang (31 km away). In March its highs average 29.3°C, about as warm as Sungailiat, with 328 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Sungailiat ranks joint 101st of 200 for the warmest March highs and joint 61st of 200 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 200 cities is 28.8°C; Sungailiat is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 29.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 251 mm to 301 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 20253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 4000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Sungailiat climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Sungailiat, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 28.1°C24.5°C24.5°C26426.612.212 h
February 28.5°C24.7°C24.7°C19421.612.212 h
March, selected 29.1°C24.8°C24.8°C25126.012.112 h
April 29.4°C24.9°C24.9°C30128.612.112 h
May 29.4°C25.2°C25.2°C22626.512.012 h
June 29.2°C25.1°C25.1°C16821.312.012 h
July 28.8°C24.9°C24.9°C13918.112.012 h
August 29.4°C25.0°C25.0°C10513.412.112 h
September 29.8°C24.9°C24.9°C11914.012.112 h
October 29.7°C24.8°C24.8°C23921.112.112 h
November 28.9°C24.5°C24.5°C34728.412.212 h
December 28.2°C24.4°C24.4°C37830.112.212 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 Sungailiat

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