Climate averages 1991–2020

Kitale weather
in March.

A warm, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 4th driest of the year.

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

Average high 22.8°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 12.2°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 95 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a warm month in Kitale: daytime highs average 22.8°C and nights cool to about 12.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 95 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a wet month (the 4th 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 Eldoret (62 km away). In March its highs average 25.4°C, 2.5°C warmer than Kitale, with 97 mm of rain.

Among the 37 cities listed in Kenya, Kitale ranks 37th of 37 for the warmest March highs and 28th of 37 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 37 cities is 28.1°C; Kitale is 5.2°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 21.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 95 mm to 189 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

Kitale climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kitale, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	22.1°C11.4°C	11.4°C	52	7.3	12.112 h
February	23.1°C11.9°C	11.9°C	49	6.7	12.112 h
March, selected	22.8°C12.2°C	12.2°C	95	12.5	12.112 h
April	21.3°C12.3°C	12.3°C	189	20.7	12.112 h
May	20.1°C12.1°C	12.1°C	220	23.9	12.212 h
June	18.9°C11.2°C	11.2°C	199	22.2	12.212 h
July	18.1°C10.6°C	10.6°C	172	21.8	12.212 h
August	18.5°C10.4°C	10.4°C	224	23.7	12.112 h
September	19.8°C10.7°C	10.7°C	174	18.6	12.112 h
October	20.4°C11.4°C	11.4°C	158	20.5	12.112 h
November	20.4°C11.3°C	11.3°C	141	19.5	12.112 h
December	21.1°C11.1°C	11.1°C	71	10.8	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

Distance from Kitale

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