Climate averages 1991–2020
Vanderbijlpark 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 Vanderbijlpark: daytime highs average 24.7°C and nights cool to about 13.8°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 Vereeniging (10 km away). In March its highs average 25.0°C, about as warm as Vanderbijlpark, with 82 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Vanderbijlpark ranks joint 60th 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; Vanderbijlpark is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 22.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 86 mm to 41 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
Vanderbijlpark climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.3°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 132 | 16.1 | 13.614 h |
| February | 26.0°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 105 | 13.0 | 13.013 h |
| March, selected | 24.7°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 86 | 11.5 | 12.312 h |
| April | 22.4°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 41 | 6.9 | 11.511 h |
| May | 20.1°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 18 | 3.1 | 10.811 h |
| June | 17.6°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 8.2 | 1.6 | 10.510 h |
| July | 17.8°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 3.6 | 0.8 | 10.611 h |
| August | 21.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 12 | 2.2 | 11.211 h |
| September | 25.3°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 20 | 3.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 26.4°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 77 | 10.4 | 12.713 h |
| November | 26.1°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 104 | 13.0 | 13.413 h |
| December | 26.4°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 137 | 17.0 | 13.814 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
- Vereeniging in MarchSouth Africa · 10 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 14.1°C · 82 mm rain
- Sasolburg in MarchSouth Africa · 12 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 14.0°C · 86 mm rain
- Evaton in MarchSouth Africa · 20 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 13.8°C · 88 mm rain
- Parys in MarchSouth Africa · 43 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 14.5°C · 80 mm rain
- Westonaria in MarchSouth Africa · 48 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 13.7°C · 90 mm rain
- Tokoza in MarchSouth Africa · 49 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 13.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Soweto in MarchSouth Africa · 49 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 13.1°C · 90 mm rain
- Heidelberg, South Africa in MarchSouth Africa · 57 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 13.6°C · 84 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 Vanderbijlpark) is explained once on the Vanderbijlpark year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Sasolburg lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.