Climate averages 1991–2020
Nouméa weather
in March.
A warm, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Nouméa: daytime highs average 27.1°C and nights cool to about 23.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 188 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes March a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 14 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Port-Vila (541 km away). In March its highs average 28.0°C, 0.9°C warmer than Nouméa, with 237 mm of rain.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 188 mm to 123 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
Nouméa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.7°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 139 | 15.1 | 13.313 h |
| February | 28.1°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 143 | 16.5 | 12.813 h |
| March, selected | 27.1°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 188 | 18.9 | 12.212 h |
| April | 25.6°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 123 | 15.3 | 11.612 h |
| May | 23.9°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 99 | 11.4 | 11.111 h |
| June | 22.5°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 78 | 9.6 | 10.811 h |
| July | 21.6°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 64 | 8.2 | 10.911 h |
| August | 21.6°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 66 | 8.0 | 11.311 h |
| September | 23.0°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 48 | 6.8 | 11.912 h |
| October | 24.5°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 38 | 7.4 | 12.613 h |
| November | 26.0°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 65 | 8.5 | 13.213 h |
| December | 27.3°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 88 | 12.0 | 13.513 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
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 Nouméa) is explained once on the Nouméa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.