Climate averages 1991–2020
Stellenbosch weather
in March.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 3rd warmest and the joint 2nd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Stellenbosch: daytime highs average 27.6°C and nights cool to about 16.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 21 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 19 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Somerset West (17 km away). In March its highs average 26.2°C, 1.4°C cooler than Stellenbosch, with 21 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Stellenbosch ranks joint 10th of 95 for the warmest March highs and joint 3rd of 95 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 95 cities is 25.6°C; Stellenbosch is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 3.4°C to 24.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 21 mm to 56 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
Stellenbosch climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.7°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 21 | 3.4 | 14.114 h |
| February | 29.2°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 18 | 3.2 | 13.313 h |
| March, selected | 27.6°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 21 | 3.5 | 12.312 h |
| April | 24.2°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 56 | 5.7 | 11.311 h |
| May | 20.6°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 90 | 9.0 | 10.410 h |
| June | 17.3°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 138 | 11.0 | 9.910 h |
| July | 17.0°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 122 | 10.3 | 10.110 h |
| August | 17.2°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 105 | 10.9 | 10.911 h |
| September | 19.0°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 68 | 8.8 | 11.912 h |
| October | 22.0°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 45 | 6.6 | 12.913 h |
| November | 24.1°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 41 | 5.8 | 13.914 h |
| December | 26.9°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 24 | 4.2 | 14.414 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
- Somerset West in MarchSouth Africa · 17 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 17.8°C · 21 mm rain
- Paarl in MarchSouth Africa · 24 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 16.7°C · 21 mm rain
- Cape Town in MarchSouth Africa · 41 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 16.5°C · 16 mm rain
- Atlantis in MarchSouth Africa · 54 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 15.0°C · 11 mm rain
- Worcester, South Africa in MarchSouth Africa · 63 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 16.7°C · 28 mm rain
- Mossel Bay in MarchSouth Africa · 303 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 17.1°C · 41 mm rain
- Oudtshoorn in MarchSouth Africa · 310 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 14.9°C · 38 mm rain
- George in MarchSouth Africa · 332 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 15.8°C · 54 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 Stellenbosch) is explained once on the Stellenbosch year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Somerset West lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.