Climate averages 1991–2020
Sfax weather
in March.
A mild, fairly dry month: the 9th warmest and the 10th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Sfax: daytime highs average 19.3°C and nights cool to about 11.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 22 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sakiet ed Daier (7 km away). In March its highs average 19.5°C, about as warm as Sfax, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Tunisia, Sfax ranks 11th of 22 for the warmest March highs and joint 7th of 22 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 22 cities is 18.9°C; Sfax is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 22 mm to 15 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
Sfax climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.0°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 20 | 3.7 | 10.110 h |
| February | 16.8°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 16 | 3.6 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 19.3°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 22 | 3.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.8°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 15 | 3.3 | 13.013 h |
| May | 25.1°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 8.1 | 1.8 | 14.014 h |
| June | 28.9°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 2.9 | 0.7 | 14.414 h |
| July | 31.9°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.214 h |
| August | 32.3°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 4.3 | 0.9 | 13.513 h |
| September | 29.2°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 25 | 3.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 25.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 24 | 4.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 21.1°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 20 | 3.4 | 10.410 h |
| December | 17.2°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 20 | 3.3 | 9.910 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
- Sakiet ed Daier in MarchTunisia · 7 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 11.0°C · 22 mm rain
- Houmt Souk in MarchTunisia · 97 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 12.3°C · 15 mm rain
- Msaken in MarchTunisia · 111 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 9.0°C · 37 mm rain
- Gabès in MarchTunisia · 113 kmHigh 19.8°C · Low 12.0°C · 17 mm rain
- Monastir in MarchTunisia · 116 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 10.1°C · 38 mm rain
- Kairouan in MarchTunisia · 120 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 8.0°C · 34 mm rain
- Sousse in MarchTunisia · 121 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 9.5°C · 38 mm rain
- Zarzis in MarchTunisia · 141 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 12.6°C · 13 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 Sfax) is explained once on the Sfax year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Sakiet ed Daier lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.