Climate averages 1991–2020

Miri weather
in March.

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

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

Average high 28.9°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 24.6°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 82 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a hot month in Miri: daytime highs average 28.9°C and nights cool to about 24.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 82 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Marudi (43 km away). In March its highs average 30.9°C, 2.1°C warmer than Miri, with 206 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Miri ranks 69th of 72 for the warmest March highs and 2nd of 72 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 72 cities is 30.1°C; Miri is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 29.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 82 mm to 124 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

Miri climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Miri, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	28.3°C24.3°C	24.3°C	202	22.8	11.912 h
February	28.3°C24.3°C	24.3°C	112	17.2	12.012 h
March, selected	28.9°C24.6°C	24.6°C	82	16.6	12.112 h
April	29.4°C25.0°C	25.0°C	124	20.5	12.212 h
May	29.6°C25.3°C	25.3°C	159	21.5	12.312 h
June	29.4°C25.1°C	25.1°C	201	19.4	12.412 h
July	29.3°C25.0°C	25.0°C	187	19.3	12.312 h
August	29.4°C25.0°C	25.0°C	183	20.4	12.312 h
September	29.2°C24.7°C	24.7°C	195	22.6	12.112 h
October	28.7°C24.4°C	24.4°C	280	27.1	12.012 h
November	28.6°C24.3°C	24.3°C	276	28.1	11.912 h
December	28.4°C24.2°C	24.2°C	293	28.0	11.912 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 Miri

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