Climate averages 1991–2020
Maputo weather
in March.
A warm, moderately wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Maputo: daytime highs average 27.9°C and nights cool to about 22.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 15 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Matola (12 km away). In March its highs average 28.7°C, 0.7°C warmer than Maputo, with 73 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Maputo ranks 17th of 22 for the warmest March highs and joint 4th of 22 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 22 cities is 28.6°C; Maputo is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.6°C to 26.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 73 mm to 42 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
Maputo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.2°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 115 | 11.9 | 13.614 h |
| February | 28.4°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 95 | 10.6 | 13.013 h |
| March, selected | 27.9°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 73 | 10.2 | 12.312 h |
| April | 26.4°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 42 | 6.5 | 11.511 h |
| May | 25.1°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 23 | 3.3 | 10.911 h |
| June | 23.6°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 12 | 2.5 | 10.511 h |
| July | 23.0°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 11 | 2.6 | 10.711 h |
| August | 24.3°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 13 | 2.5 | 11.211 h |
| September | 25.7°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 31 | 3.8 | 11.912 h |
| October | 25.8°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 51 | 6.8 | 12.713 h |
| November | 26.8°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 91 | 9.9 | 13.413 h |
| December | 27.9°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 103 | 10.3 | 13.714 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
- Matola in MarchMozambique · 12 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 21.9°C · 73 mm rain
- Ressano Garcia in MarchMozambique · 83 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 21.3°C · 61 mm rain
- Manzini in MarchEswatini · 134 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 17.5°C · 93 mm rain
- Xai-Xai in MarchMozambique · 147 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.9°C · 74 mm rain
- Mbabane in MarchEswatini · 150 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 15.0°C · 159 mm rain
- Mbombela in MarchSouth Africa · 171 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 17.6°C · 107 mm rain
- Chibuto in MarchMozambique · 171 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 21.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Piet Retief in MarchSouth Africa · 211 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 14.3°C · 103 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 Maputo) is explained once on the Maputo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Matola lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.