Climate averages 1991–2020
Lima weather
in March.
A warm, fairly dry month: one of the warmest and the 11th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Lima: daytime highs average 26.2°C and nights cool to about 20.9°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 10 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Santa Anita - Los Ficus (6 km away). In March its highs average 24.1°C, 2.1°C cooler than Lima, with 24 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Peru, Lima ranks 16th of 24 for the warmest March highs and joint 6th of 24 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 24 cities is 25.3°C; Lima is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 24 mm to 7.2 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
Lima climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.6°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 19 | 5.7 | 12.713 h |
| February | 26.2°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 31 | 8.9 | 12.512 h |
| March, selected | 26.2°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 24 | 7.6 | 12.212 h |
| April | 24.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 7.2 | 2.6 | 11.812 h |
| May | 23.0°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 1.8 | 0.4 | 11.612 h |
| June | 21.5°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 1.1 | 0.0 | 11.411 h |
| July | 20.7°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 1.0 | 0.1 | 11.511 h |
| August | 20.7°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 0.9 | 0.0 | 11.712 h |
| September | 21.2°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 1.6 | 0.3 | 12.012 h |
| October | 21.8°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 2.5 | 0.6 | 12.412 h |
| November | 22.8°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 2.5 | 0.7 | 12.713 h |
| December | 24.2°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 6.2 | 1.7 | 12.813 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
- Santa Anita - Los Ficus in MarchPeru · 6 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 19.4°C · 24 mm rain
- Callao in MarchPeru · 12 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 21.2°C · 5.9 mm rain
- Chosica in MarchPeru · 36 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 19.5°C · 89 mm rain
- Chincha Alta in MarchPeru · 180 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 21.2°C · 5.2 mm rain
- Huancayo in MarchPeru · 198 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 6.3°C · 222 mm rain
- Huánuco (approximate) in MarchPeru · 250 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 16.9°C · 156 mm rain
- Ica in MarchPeru · 266 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 21.1°C · 21 mm rain
- Chimbote in MarchPeru · 372 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 21.5°C · 14 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 Lima) is explained once on the Lima year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Santa Anita - Los Ficus lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.