Climate averages 1991–2020
Ho Chi Minh City weather
in March.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 2nd warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Ho Chi Minh City: daytime highs average 33.8°C and nights cool to about 24.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 2nd 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 Quận Mười (7 km away). In March its highs average 33.6°C, about as warm as Ho Chi Minh City, with 24 mm of rain.
Among the 136 cities listed in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City ranks 12th of 136 for the warmest March highs and joint 9th of 136 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 136 cities is 28.7°C; Ho Chi Minh City is 5.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 34.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 24 mm to 69 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
Ho Chi Minh City climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31.2°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 26 | 4.1 | 11.612 h |
| February | 32.7°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 9.7 | 1.8 | 11.812 h |
| March, selected | 33.8°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 24 | 4.4 | 12.112 h |
| April | 34.0°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 69 | 11.9 | 12.412 h |
| May | 32.8°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 194 | 24.2 | 12.613 h |
| June | 31.1°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 242 | 27.2 | 12.713 h |
| July | 30.6°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 251 | 28.9 | 12.713 h |
| August | 30.7°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 268 | 28.8 | 12.512 h |
| September | 30.4°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 295 | 28.3 | 12.212 h |
| October | 30.1°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 258 | 26.8 | 11.912 h |
| November | 30.2°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 133 | 16.7 | 11.612 h |
| December | 30.3°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 64 | 9.4 | 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
- Quận Mười in MarchVietnam · 7 kmHigh 33.6°C · Low 24.4°C · 24 mm rain
- Quận Sáu in MarchVietnam · 9 kmHigh 33.6°C · Low 24.3°C · 24 mm rain
- Thuận An in MarchVietnam · 15 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 24.1°C · 25 mm rain
- Thủ Đức in MarchVietnam · 16 kmHigh 33.5°C · Low 24.1°C · 24 mm rain
- Thủ Dầu Một in MarchVietnam · 18 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 24.1°C · 25 mm rain
- Củ Chi in MarchVietnam · 22 kmHigh 34.1°C · Low 24.2°C · 28 mm rain
- Cần Giuộc in MarchVietnam · 24 kmHigh 33.0°C · Low 24.4°C · 21 mm rain
- Biên Hòa in MarchVietnam · 25 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 24.2°C · 25 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 Ho Chi Minh City) is explained once on the Ho Chi Minh City year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Thủ Đức, Quận Mười and Quận Sáu lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.