Climate averages 1991–2020
Madido weather
in March.
A warm, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Madido: daytime highs average 25.1°C and nights cool to about 17.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 106 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 11 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lusaka (11 km away). In March its highs average 25.0°C, about as warm as Madido, with 129 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Zambia, Madido ranks 20th of 24 for the warmest March highs and joint 3rd of 24 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 24 cities is 25.6°C; Madido is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 24.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 106 mm to 22 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
Madido climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.3°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 223 | 24.8 | 12.913 h |
| February | 25.2°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 170 | 21.2 | 12.613 h |
| March, selected | 25.1°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 106 | 16.8 | 12.212 h |
| April | 24.7°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 22 | 4.9 | 11.812 h |
| May | 23.9°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 2.6 | 0.8 | 11.411 h |
| June | 22.1°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 0.7 | 0.1 | 11.211 h |
| July | 21.7°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 0.6 | 0.1 | 11.311 h |
| August | 25.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 11.612 h |
| September | 28.7°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 1.9 | 0.3 | 12.012 h |
| October | 30.6°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 11 | 2.4 | 12.412 h |
| November | 29.1°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 82 | 12.5 | 12.813 h |
| December | 26.1°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 192 | 23.0 | 13.013 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
- Lusaka in MarchZambia · 11 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 17.5°C · 129 mm rain
- Chunga in MarchZambia · 12 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 17.8°C · 106 mm rain
- Namalombwe in MarchZambia · 20 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 17.6°C · 129 mm rain
- Kafue in MarchZambia · 51 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.7°C · 131 mm rain
- Mazabuka in MarchZambia · 87 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.6°C · 93 mm rain
- Kabwe in MarchZambia · 101 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 17.6°C · 120 mm rain
- Kapiri Mposhi in MarchZambia · 157 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 17.3°C · 141 mm rain
- Choma in MarchZambia · 219 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 16.8°C · 125 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 Madido) is explained once on the Madido year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Chunga lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.