Climate averages 1991–2020
Gitarama weather
in March.
A warm, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Gitarama: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 12.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 121 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 07 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Muhanga (8 km away). In March its highs average 23.4°C, about as warm as Gitarama, with 121 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Rwanda, Gitarama ranks joint 3rd of 5 for the warmest March highs and joint 3rd of 5 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 5 cities is 24.5°C; Gitarama is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 22.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 121 mm to 135 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
Gitarama climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.2°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 134 | 20.0 | 12.212 h |
| February | 23.9°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 119 | 18.9 | 12.212 h |
| March, selected | 23.4°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 121 | 20.9 | 12.112 h |
| April | 22.2°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 135 | 24.5 | 12.112 h |
| May | 22.0°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 78 | 17.2 | 12.012 h |
| June | 22.4°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 17 | 4.4 | 12.012 h |
| July | 23.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 6.5 | 1.7 | 12.012 h |
| August | 24.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 25 | 5.2 | 12.012 h |
| September | 24.2°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 54 | 10.6 | 12.112 h |
| October | 23.2°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 115 | 18.8 | 12.212 h |
| November | 22.4°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 123 | 21.4 | 12.212 h |
| December | 22.6°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 117 | 19.1 | 12.212 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
- Muhanga in MarchRwanda · 8 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 13.2°C · 121 mm rain
- Kigali in MarchRwanda · 36 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 14.7°C · 105 mm rain
- Musanze in MarchRwanda · 65 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 15.5°C · 234 mm rain
- Rutshuru in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 105 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 15.6°C · 221 mm rain
- Nyagatare in MarchRwanda · 107 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 16.4°C · 95 mm rain
- Bukavu in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 112 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 16.3°C · 225 mm rain
- Gitega in MarchBurundi · 152 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 14.9°C · 112 mm rain
- Bujumbura in MarchBurundi · 152 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 22.8°C · 82 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 Gitarama) is explained once on the Gitarama year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Muhanga lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.