Climate averages 1991–2020

Port Dickson weather
in March.

A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.9°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 24.7°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 145 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a hot month in Port Dickson: daytime highs average 29.9°C and nights cool to about 24.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 145 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes March a wet month (the 3rd 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 Sepang (19 km away). In March its highs average 29.6°C, about as warm as Port Dickson, with 189 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Port Dickson ranks joint 44th of 72 for the warmest March highs and 15th of 72 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 72 cities is 30.1°C; Port Dickson is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 29.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 145 mm to 192 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

Port Dickson climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Port Dickson, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	28.9°C23.9°C	23.9°C	137	18.2	12.012 h
February	29.6°C24.1°C	24.1°C	86	14.8	12.012 h
March, selected	29.9°C24.7°C	24.7°C	145	21.9	12.112 h
April	29.7°C25.0°C	25.0°C	192	25.8	12.212 h
May	29.6°C25.3°C	25.3°C	218	26.7	12.212 h
June	29.5°C25.3°C	25.3°C	188	23.7	12.312 h
July	29.2°C25.0°C	25.0°C	208	25.0	12.312 h
August	29.1°C24.8°C	24.8°C	210	26.3	12.212 h
September	29.1°C24.7°C	24.7°C	214	25.3	12.112 h
October	28.9°C24.6°C	24.6°C	236	27.0	12.112 h
November	28.6°C24.4°C	24.4°C	301	28.2	12.012 h
December	28.5°C24.1°C	24.1°C	244	25.7	12.012 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 Port Dickson

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