Climate averages 1991–2020
Maracaibo weather
in March.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Maracaibo: daytime highs average 33.1°C and nights cool to about 25.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 17 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 04 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Los Puertos de Altagracia (13 km away). In March its highs average 33.8°C, 0.7°C warmer than Maracaibo, with 17 mm of rain.
Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Maracaibo ranks joint 17th of 65 for the warmest March highs and joint 13th of 65 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 65 cities is 31.1°C; Maracaibo is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 32.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 17 mm to 58 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
Maracaibo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32.1°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 5.6 | 1.3 | 11.612 h |
| February | 32.9°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 3.1 | 0.8 | 11.812 h |
| March, selected | 33.1°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 17 | 3.6 | 12.112 h |
| April | 32.5°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 58 | 9.8 | 12.412 h |
| May | 31.6°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 150 | 18.8 | 12.613 h |
| June | 31.9°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 100 | 13.8 | 12.713 h |
| July | 32.4°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 67 | 11.6 | 12.713 h |
| August | 32.2°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 119 | 17.3 | 12.512 h |
| September | 31.5°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 164 | 21.4 | 12.212 h |
| October | 30.6°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 196 | 25.5 | 11.912 h |
| November | 30.1°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 135 | 18.9 | 11.612 h |
| December | 31.0°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 29 | 5.9 | 11.512 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
- Los Puertos de Altagracia in MarchVenezuela · 13 kmHigh 33.8°C · Low 24.9°C · 17 mm rain
- La Concepción in MarchVenezuela · 25 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 24.7°C · 20 mm rain
- Concepción, Venezuela in MarchVenezuela · 27 kmHigh 33.5°C · Low 25.3°C · 20 mm rain
- Cabimas in MarchVenezuela · 32 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 25.6°C · 56 mm rain
- Ciudad Ojeda in MarchVenezuela · 59 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 25.6°C · 78 mm rain
- La Villa del Rosario in MarchVenezuela · 84 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 23.9°C · 23 mm rain
- Maicao in MarchColombia · 107 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.1°C · 11 mm rain
- San Timoteo in MarchVenezuela · 112 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.3°C · 118 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 Maracaibo) is explained once on the Maracaibo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Los Puertos de Altagracia lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.