Climate averages 1991–2020
Sousse 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 Sousse: daytime highs average 20.3°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 38 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Msaken (12 km away). In March its highs average 20.5°C, about as warm as Sousse, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Tunisia, Sousse ranks 5th of 22 for the warmest March highs and joint 13th of 22 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 22 cities is 18.9°C; Sousse is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 23.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 38 mm to 24 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
Sousse climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.7°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 33 | 5.3 | 10.010 h |
| February | 17.4°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 27 | 5.3 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 20.3°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 38 | 6.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.2°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 24 | 5.3 | 13.113 h |
| May | 27.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 15 | 3.1 | 14.014 h |
| June | 31.7°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 6.3 | 1.5 | 14.515 h |
| July | 34.8°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 1.4 | 0.3 | 14.314 h |
| August | 35.0°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 9.4 | 1.4 | 13.514 h |
| September | 30.7°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 47 | 5.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 26.5°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 45 | 6.8 | 11.311 h |
| November | 21.5°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 33 | 5.2 | 10.310 h |
| December | 17.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 33 | 5.5 | 9.810 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
- Msaken in MarchTunisia · 12 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 9.0°C · 37 mm rain
- Monastir in MarchTunisia · 18 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 10.1°C · 38 mm rain
- Kairouan in MarchTunisia · 51 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 8.0°C · 34 mm rain
- Hammamet in MarchTunisia · 64 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 11.0°C · 42 mm rain
- Nabeul in MarchTunisia · 71 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 11.3°C · 41 mm rain
- El Mourouj in MarchTunisia · 106 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 9.2°C · 46 mm rain
- Sīdī Ḥusayn in MarchTunisia · 113 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 9.5°C · 42 mm rain
- Sakiet ed Daier in MarchTunisia · 116 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 11.0°C · 22 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 Sousse) is explained once on the Sousse year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Monastir lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.