Climate averages 1991–2020

Saint-Paul weather
in March.

A warm, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 27.9°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 24.5°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 160 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a warm month in Saint-Paul: daytime highs average 27.9°C and nights cool to about 24.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 160 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes March a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 13 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Saint-Denis (23 km away). In March its highs average 28.0°C, about as warm as Saint-Paul, with 219 mm of rain.

Among the 3 cities listed in Reunion, Saint-Paul ranks 3rd of 3 for the warmest March highs and 1st of 3 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 3 cities is 28.4°C; Saint-Paul is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 160 mm to 53 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Saint-Paul climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Saint-Paul, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	28.1°C24.6°C	24.6°C	183	21.5	13.213 h
February	28.1°C24.8°C	24.8°C	172	20.8	12.813 h
March, selected	27.9°C24.5°C	24.5°C	160	20.7	12.212 h
April	27.3°C23.5°C	23.5°C	53	13.6	11.612 h
May	25.6°C21.7°C	21.7°C	42	10.0	11.111 h
June	24.1°C19.9°C	19.9°C	23	7.0	10.911 h
July	23.4°C18.8°C	18.8°C	19	6.4	11.011 h
August	23.6°C18.7°C	18.7°C	25	8.8	11.411 h
September	24.3°C19.3°C	19.3°C	26	8.6	12.012 h
October	25.4°C20.6°C	20.6°C	35	10.3	12.613 h
November	26.3°C22.0°C	22.0°C	59	13.3	13.113 h
December	27.5°C23.6°C	23.6°C	93	17.2	13.413 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

Distance from Saint-Paul

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Saint-Paul) is explained once on the Saint-Paul year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.