Climate averages 1991–2020
Lisbon weather
in March.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Lisbon: daytime highs average 16.4°C and nights cool to about 10.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 53 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Amadora (8 km away). In March its highs average 16.6°C, about as warm as Lisbon, with 53 mm of rain.
Among the 12 cities listed in Portugal, Lisbon ranks 8th of 12 for the warmest March highs and joint 2nd of 12 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 12 cities is 16.7°C; Lisbon is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 17.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 53 mm to 51 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
Lisbon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13.4°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 68 | 8.9 | 9.810 h |
| February | 14.2°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 52 | 7.6 | 10.711 h |
| March, selected | 16.4°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 53 | 8.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.9°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 51 | 8.4 | 13.213 h |
| May | 20.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 42 | 5.9 | 14.314 h |
| June | 23.6°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 9.9 | 2.1 | 14.815 h |
| July | 25.7°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 2.0 | 0.6 | 14.615 h |
| August | 26.3°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 4.1 | 1.0 | 13.714 h |
| September | 24.4°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 29 | 4.1 | 12.512 h |
| October | 20.9°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 77 | 8.9 | 11.211 h |
| November | 16.7°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 82 | 10.2 | 10.110 h |
| December | 14.3°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 79 | 9.3 | 9.510 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
- Amadora in MarchPortugal · 8 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 10.2°C · 53 mm rain
- Queluz in MarchPortugal · 10 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 11.0°C · 53 mm rain
- Setúbal in MarchPortugal · 32 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 10.0°C · 48 mm rain
- Leiria in MarchPortugal · 117 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 9.1°C · 70 mm rain
- Coimbra in MarchPortugal · 176 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 7.3°C · 85 mm rain
- Badajoz in MarchSpain · 190 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 7.6°C · 45 mm rain
- Aveiro in MarchPortugal · 218 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 8.6°C · 95 mm rain
- Faro in MarchPortugal · 218 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 12.2°C · 53 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 Lisbon) is explained once on the Lisbon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Amadora and Queluz lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.