Climate averages 1991–2020
Virginia weather
in March.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Virginia: daytime highs average 27.0°C and nights cool to about 15.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 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 Welkom (19 km away). In March its highs average 26.7°C, about as warm as Virginia, with 67 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Virginia ranks joint 22nd of 95 for the warmest March highs and joint 22nd of 95 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 95 cities is 25.6°C; Virginia is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 3.4°C to 23.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 67 mm to 46 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
Virginia climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.6°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 92 | 13.1 | 13.714 h |
| February | 28.6°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 75 | 11.5 | 13.113 h |
| March, selected | 27.0°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 67 | 10.3 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.6°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 46 | 6.8 | 11.411 h |
| May | 20.6°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 19 | 3.2 | 10.711 h |
| June | 17.5°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 12 | 1.8 | 10.410 h |
| July | 17.7°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 6.3 | 1.0 | 10.511 h |
| August | 21.0°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 15 | 2.0 | 11.111 h |
| September | 25.7°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 14 | 2.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 27.6°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 51 | 7.5 | 12.713 h |
| November | 28.4°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 67 | 8.9 | 13.513 h |
| December | 29.4°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 91 | 13.1 | 13.914 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
- Welkom in MarchSouth Africa · 19 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 14.7°C · 67 mm rain
- Odendaalsrus in MarchSouth Africa · 31 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 15.0°C · 64 mm rain
- Kutloanong in MarchSouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 15.0°C · 64 mm rain
- Kroonstad in MarchSouth Africa · 62 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 14.5°C · 68 mm rain
- Bothaville in MarchSouth Africa · 83 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 15.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Thaba Nchu in MarchSouth Africa · 123 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 13.2°C · 82 mm rain
- Orkney in MarchSouth Africa · 126 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 14.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Bloemfontein in MarchSouth Africa · 130 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 14.3°C · 72 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 Virginia) is explained once on the Virginia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Welkom lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.