Climate averages 1991–2020
Mpumalanga weather
in March.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Mpumalanga: daytime highs average 25.3°C and nights cool to about 16.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 87 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 17 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pinetown (24 km away). In March its highs average 25.6°C, about as warm as Mpumalanga, with 90 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Mpumalanga ranks joint 49th of 95 for the warmest March highs and 64th of 95 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 95 cities is 25.6°C; Mpumalanga is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.8°C to 23.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 87 mm to 60 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
Mpumalanga climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.5°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 101 | 15.5 | 13.814 h |
| February | 25.9°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 88 | 13.2 | 13.113 h |
| March, selected | 25.3°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 87 | 12.7 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 60 | 9.1 | 11.411 h |
| May | 22.4°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 33 | 5.0 | 10.611 h |
| June | 20.7°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 22 | 3.9 | 10.310 h |
| July | 20.4°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 33 | 3.9 | 10.410 h |
| August | 21.8°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 30 | 5.6 | 11.011 h |
| September | 22.8°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 58 | 9.0 | 11.912 h |
| October | 22.6°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 88 | 13.8 | 12.813 h |
| November | 23.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 101 | 14.8 | 13.614 h |
| December | 24.7°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 102 | 15.5 | 14.014 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
- Pinetown in MarchSouth Africa · 24 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 18.8°C · 90 mm rain
- Ntuzuma in MarchSouth Africa · 31 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 19.4°C · 90 mm rain
- Pietermaritzburg in MarchSouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 16.4°C · 96 mm rain
- Durban in MarchSouth Africa · 38 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 21.2°C · 90 mm rain
- KwaDukuza in MarchSouth Africa · 83 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 20.4°C · 91 mm rain
- Ladysmith in MarchSouth Africa · 162 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 15.0°C · 117 mm rain
- Richards Bay in MarchSouth Africa · 178 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 21.8°C · 97 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in MarchSouth Africa · 187 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 14.5°C · 105 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 Mpumalanga) is explained once on the Mpumalanga year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.