Climate averages 1991–2020
Tunis weather
in March.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Tunis: daytime highs average 17.9°C and nights cool to about 9.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 46 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 7th 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 Sīdī Ḥusayn (8 km away). In March its highs average 18.3°C, about as warm as Tunis, with 42 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Tunisia, Tunis ranks 16th of 22 for the warmest March highs and joint 18th of 22 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 22 cities is 18.9°C; Tunis is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 20.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 46 mm to 42 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
Tunis climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.1°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 47 | 8.6 | 9.910 h |
| February | 15.4°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 49 | 8.8 | 10.811 h |
| March, selected | 17.9°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 46 | 7.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 42 | 7.7 | 13.113 h |
| May | 24.7°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 24 | 4.4 | 14.114 h |
| June | 29.3°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 10 | 1.6 | 14.615 h |
| July | 32.4°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 1.8 | 0.3 | 14.414 h |
| August | 32.8°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 8.9 | 2.4 | 13.614 h |
| September | 28.8°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 38 | 5.6 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.0°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 46 | 7.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 20.0°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 46 | 7.6 | 10.210 h |
| December | 16.3°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 46 | 8.3 | 9.710 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
- Sīdī Ḥusayn in MarchTunisia · 8 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 9.5°C · 42 mm rain
- Sukrah in MarchTunisia · 10 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 10.5°C · 48 mm rain
- El Mourouj in MarchTunisia · 12 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 9.2°C · 46 mm rain
- La Marsa in MarchTunisia · 16 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 10.9°C · 48 mm rain
- Bizerte in MarchTunisia · 57 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 11.0°C · 51 mm rain
- Hammamet in MarchTunisia · 62 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 11.0°C · 42 mm rain
- Nabeul in MarchTunisia · 65 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 11.3°C · 41 mm rain
- Sousse in MarchTunisia · 118 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 9.5°C · 38 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 Tunis) is explained once on the Tunis year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
El Mourouj lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.