Climate averages 1991–2020
Pretoria weather
in March.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Pretoria: daytime highs average 26.1°C and nights cool to about 15.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 15 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Centurion (13 km away). In March its highs average 25.3°C, 0.8°C cooler than Pretoria, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Pretoria ranks 37th of 95 for the warmest March highs and joint 51st of 95 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 95 cities is 25.6°C; Pretoria is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 2.5°C to 23.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 83 mm to 37 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
Pretoria climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 103 | 14.7 | 13.514 h |
| February | 27.6°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 93 | 11.9 | 13.013 h |
| March, selected | 26.1°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 83 | 10.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.6°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 37 | 6.2 | 11.512 h |
| May | 21.6°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 15 | 2.6 | 10.911 h |
| June | 19.0°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 7.2 | 1.1 | 10.611 h |
| July | 19.2°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 3.2 | 0.7 | 10.711 h |
| August | 22.5°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 7.0 | 1.4 | 11.211 h |
| September | 26.6°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 17 | 2.5 | 11.912 h |
| October | 27.5°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 63 | 8.4 | 12.713 h |
| November | 27.1°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 90 | 12.4 | 13.413 h |
| December | 27.3°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 113 | 15.2 | 13.714 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
- Centurion in MarchSouth Africa · 13 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 14.8°C · 83 mm rain
- Ga-Rankuwa in MarchSouth Africa · 24 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 16.0°C · 76 mm rain
- Midrand in MarchSouth Africa · 27 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 13.4°C · 80 mm rain
- Thembisa in MarchSouth Africa · 28 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 13.8°C · 80 mm rain
- Soshanguve in MarchSouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 16.6°C · 76 mm rain
- Hammanskraal in MarchSouth Africa · 39 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 16.8°C · 77 mm rain
- Brits in MarchSouth Africa · 43 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 16.9°C · 76 mm rain
- Randburg in MarchSouth Africa · 43 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 13.4°C · 80 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 Pretoria) is explained once on the Pretoria year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Centurion lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.