Climate averages 1991–2020

Sasolburg 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.

Average high 24.9°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 14.0°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 86 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Sasolburg · average highYear overview

March is a warm month in Sasolburg: daytime highs average 24.9°C and nights cool to about 14.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 86 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 16 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Vanderbijlpark (12 km away). In March its highs average 24.7°C, about as warm as Sasolburg, with 86 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Sasolburg ranks joint 58th of 95 for the warmest March highs and joint 60th of 95 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 95 cities is 25.6°C; Sasolburg is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 22.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 86 mm to 41 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Sasolburg climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Sasolburg, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 26.5°C15.9°C15.9°C13216.113.614 h
February 26.2°C15.6°C15.6°C10513.013.013 h
March, selected 24.9°C14.0°C14.0°C8611.512.312 h
April 22.5°C10.7°C10.7°C416.911.511 h
May 20.1°C6.7°C6.7°C183.110.811 h
June 17.6°C3.4°C3.4°C8.21.610.510 h
July 17.8°C2.7°C2.7°C3.60.810.611 h
August 21.1°C5.6°C5.6°C122.211.211 h
September 25.3°C9.8°C9.8°C203.611.912 h
October 26.5°C12.6°C12.6°C7710.412.713 h
November 26.3°C13.9°C13.9°C10413.013.413 h
December 26.6°C15.5°C15.5°C13717.013.814 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

Distance from Sasolburg

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Sasolburg) is explained once on the Sasolburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Vanderbijlpark lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.