Climate averages 1991–2020
Dondo weather
in March.
A hot, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Dondo: daytime highs average 29.9°C and nights cool to about 22.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 118 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 13 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Beira (28 km away). In March its highs average 29.9°C, about as warm as Dondo, with 118 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Dondo ranks joint 3rd of 22 for the warmest March highs and joint 11th of 22 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 22 cities is 28.6°C; Dondo is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 118 mm to 52 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
Dondo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.7°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 200 | 19.8 | 13.213 h |
| February | 30.4°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 158 | 17.1 | 12.813 h |
| March, selected | 29.9°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 118 | 17.0 | 12.212 h |
| April | 28.5°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 52 | 10.8 | 11.712 h |
| May | 27.4°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 19 | 4.8 | 11.211 h |
| June | 26.0°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 14 | 4.2 | 11.011 h |
| July | 25.5°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 17 | 5.3 | 11.111 h |
| August | 27.7°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 11 | 3.4 | 11.411 h |
| September | 30.4°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 15 | 3.6 | 12.012 h |
| October | 31.4°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 25 | 5.9 | 12.513 h |
| November | 32.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 78 | 10.0 | 13.013 h |
| December | 31.3°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 178 | 15.7 | 13.313 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
- Beira in MarchMozambique · 28 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 23.3°C · 118 mm rain
- Chimoio in MarchMozambique · 143 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 19.0°C · 116 mm rain
- Mutare in MarchZimbabwe · 229 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 16.8°C · 103 mm rain
- Quelimane in MarchMozambique · 297 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.2°C · 146 mm rain
- Mocuba in MarchMozambique · 389 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.2°C · 129 mm rain
- Tete in MarchMozambique · 403 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 23.5°C · 71 mm rain
- Masvingo in MarchZimbabwe · 413 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 16.5°C · 84 mm rain
- Ruwa in MarchZimbabwe · 415 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 14.7°C · 93 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 Dondo) is explained once on the Dondo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.