Climate averages 1991–2020
Roodepoort weather
in March.
A warm, 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 Roodepoort: daytime highs average 23.0°C and nights cool to about 12.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a 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 Soweto (12 km away). In March its highs average 23.4°C, about as warm as Roodepoort, with 90 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Roodepoort ranks 91st 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; Roodepoort is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 20.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 90 mm to 45 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
Roodepoort climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 132 | 16.9 | 13.614 h |
| February | 24.3°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 118 | 14.4 | 13.013 h |
| March, selected | 23.0°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 90 | 12.8 | 12.312 h |
| April | 20.6°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 45 | 7.3 | 11.511 h |
| May | 18.5°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 18 | 3.1 | 10.911 h |
| June | 16.3°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 8.1 | 1.4 | 10.511 h |
| July | 16.4°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 3.2 | 0.8 | 10.711 h |
| August | 19.6°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 9.7 | 1.9 | 11.211 h |
| September | 23.6°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 21 | 3.4 | 11.912 h |
| October | 24.6°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 73 | 10.4 | 12.713 h |
| November | 24.3°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 99 | 13.9 | 13.413 h |
| December | 24.4°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 141 | 18.4 | 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
- Soweto in MarchSouth Africa · 12 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 13.1°C · 90 mm rain
- Krugersdorp in MarchSouth Africa · 13 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 12.8°C · 85 mm rain
- Randburg in MarchSouth Africa · 15 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 13.4°C · 80 mm rain
- Randfontein in MarchSouth Africa · 17 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 13.0°C · 90 mm rain
- Johannesburg in MarchSouth Africa · 18 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 12.3°C · 89 mm rain
- Alberton in MarchSouth Africa · 28 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 13.3°C · 89 mm rain
- Westonaria in MarchSouth Africa · 28 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 13.7°C · 90 mm rain
- Germiston in MarchSouth Africa · 30 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 13.2°C · 83 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 Roodepoort) is explained once on the Roodepoort year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Soweto, Westonaria and Randfontein lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.