Climate averages 1991–2020
Pinetown weather
in March.
A warm, wet month: the 3rd 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 Pinetown: daytime highs average 25.6°C and nights cool to about 18.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th 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 Ntuzuma (11 km away). In March its highs average 26.8°C, 1.2°C warmer than Pinetown, with 90 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Pinetown ranks joint 46th of 95 for the warmest March highs and joint 71st of 95 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 95 cities is 25.6°C; Pinetown is level with that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.7°C to 23.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 90 mm to 74 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
Pinetown climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.9°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 91 | 13.0 | 13.814 h |
| February | 26.3°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 84 | 11.4 | 13.213 h |
| March, selected | 25.6°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 90 | 11.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.9°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 74 | 8.5 | 11.411 h |
| May | 22.8°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 43 | 5.4 | 10.611 h |
| June | 21.3°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 28 | 4.6 | 10.310 h |
| July | 20.7°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 42 | 4.7 | 10.410 h |
| August | 21.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 34 | 5.9 | 11.011 h |
| September | 22.3°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 60 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 22.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 89 | 12.5 | 12.813 h |
| November | 23.5°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 96 | 13.4 | 13.614 h |
| December | 24.9°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 94 | 13.1 | 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
- Ntuzuma in MarchSouth Africa · 11 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 19.4°C · 90 mm rain
- Durban in MarchSouth Africa · 14 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 21.2°C · 90 mm rain
- Mpumalanga in MarchSouth Africa · 24 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 16.2°C · 87 mm rain
- Pietermaritzburg in MarchSouth Africa · 53 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 16.4°C · 96 mm rain
- KwaDukuza in MarchSouth Africa · 67 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 20.4°C · 91 mm rain
- Richards Bay in MarchSouth Africa · 161 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 21.8°C · 97 mm rain
- Ladysmith in MarchSouth Africa · 177 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 15.0°C · 117 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in MarchSouth Africa · 195 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 Pinetown) is explained once on the Pinetown year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Durban and Ntuzuma lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.