Climate averages 1991–2020
Asunción weather
in March.
A hot, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Asunción: daytime highs average 30.2°C and nights cool to about 22.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 119 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a wet month (the 5th 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 San Lorenzo (15 km away). In March its highs average 30.2°C, about as warm as Asunción, with 117 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Paraguay, Asunción ranks joint 2nd of 7 for the warmest March highs and 4th of 7 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 7 cities is 30.0°C; Asunción is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 2.8°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 119 mm to 155 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
Asunción climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32.1°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 121 | 12.5 | 13.514 h |
| February | 31.3°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 142 | 12.7 | 13.013 h |
| March, selected | 30.2°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 119 | 10.7 | 12.312 h |
| April | 27.5°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 155 | 9.8 | 11.512 h |
| May | 23.3°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 136 | 8.9 | 10.911 h |
| June | 21.9°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 101 | 8.7 | 10.611 h |
| July | 21.6°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 74 | 7.9 | 10.711 h |
| August | 24.3°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 64 | 6.5 | 11.211 h |
| September | 26.4°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 107 | 8.7 | 11.912 h |
| October | 28.4°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 185 | 12.1 | 12.713 h |
| November | 29.4°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 189 | 11.6 | 13.313 h |
| December | 31.2°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 160 | 12.8 | 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
- San Lorenzo in MarchParaguay · 15 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 21.9°C · 117 mm rain
- Nemby in MarchParaguay · 16 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 21.9°C · 121 mm rain
- Limpio in MarchParaguay · 21 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 22.3°C · 117 mm rain
- Capiatá in MarchParaguay · 22 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 21.8°C · 117 mm rain
- Formosa, Argentina in MarchArgentina · 113 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 21.7°C · 128 mm rain
- Corrientes in MarchArgentina · 270 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 21.0°C · 129 mm rain
- Ituzaingó in MarchArgentina · 273 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 21.6°C · 119 mm rain
- Resistencia in MarchArgentina · 276 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 20.9°C · 131 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 Asunción) is explained once on the Asunción year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.