Climate averages 1991–2020
Nairobi weather
in March.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Nairobi: daytime highs average 26.5°C and nights cool to about 15.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 9th 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 Karuri (Kiambu County), Kenya (14 km away). In March its highs average 24.5°C, 2.0°C cooler than Nairobi, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 37 cities listed in Kenya, Nairobi ranks 20th of 37 for the warmest March highs and joint 15th of 37 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 37 cities is 28.1°C; Nairobi is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 2.0°C to 24.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 57 mm to 114 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
Nairobi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.6°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 35 | 6.3 | 12.212 h |
| February | 26.8°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 30 | 4.6 | 12.212 h |
| March, selected | 26.5°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 57 | 10.3 | 12.112 h |
| April | 24.4°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 114 | 19.4 | 12.112 h |
| May | 23.2°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 92 | 16.0 | 12.112 h |
| June | 22.2°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 42 | 7.9 | 12.012 h |
| July | 21.7°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 13 | 3.2 | 12.112 h |
| August | 22.3°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 21 | 3.9 | 12.112 h |
| September | 24.2°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 16 | 3.3 | 12.112 h |
| October | 25.0°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 40 | 9.3 | 12.112 h |
| November | 23.2°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 83 | 17.6 | 12.212 h |
| December | 24.0°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 47 | 10.2 | 12.212 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
- Karuri (Kiambu County), Kenya in MarchKenya · 14 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 14.0°C · 57 mm rain
- Ongata Rongai in MarchKenya · 14 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 15.6°C · 49 mm rain
- Kikuyu in MarchKenya · 18 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 13.6°C · 57 mm rain
- Ngong in MarchKenya · 18 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 14.7°C · 57 mm rain
- Mlolongo in MarchKenya · 19 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 15.9°C · 72 mm rain
- Ruiru in MarchKenya · 22 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 15.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Kitengela in MarchKenya · 27 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 16.3°C · 72 mm rain
- Limuru in MarchKenya · 27 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 11.8°C · 58 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 Nairobi) is explained once on the Nairobi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kikuyu, Karuri (Kiambu County), Kenya and Ngong lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.