Climate averages 1991–2020
Namalombwe weather
in March.
A warm, wet month: the joint 6th 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 Namalombwe: daytime highs average 25.3°C and nights cool to about 17.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 129 mm of rain on roughly 19 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 Namalombwe, with 129 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Zambia, Namalombwe ranks joint 16th of 24 for the warmest March highs and joint 7th of 24 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 24 cities is 25.6°C; Namalombwe is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 25.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 129 mm to 27 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
Namalombwe climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.3°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 240 | 25.5 | 12.913 h |
| February | 25.3°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 188 | 22.0 | 12.613 h |
| March, selected | 25.3°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 129 | 18.9 | 12.212 h |
| April | 25.0°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 27 | 5.4 | 11.812 h |
| May | 24.3°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 3.1 | 0.9 | 11.411 h |
| June | 22.4°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 0.9 | 0.1 | 11.211 h |
| July | 22.1°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 0.7 | 0.1 | 11.311 h |
| August | 25.4°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 11.612 h |
| September | 29.1°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 2.1 | 0.4 | 12.012 h |
| October | 30.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 15 | 3.3 | 12.412 h |
| November | 29.3°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 98 | 14.3 | 12.813 h |
| December | 26.2°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 228 | 24.5 | 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
- Madido in MarchZambia · 20 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 17.8°C · 106 mm rain
- Kafue in MarchZambia · 42 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.7°C · 131 mm rain
- Mazabuka in MarchZambia · 70 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.6°C · 93 mm rain
- Kabwe in MarchZambia · 108 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 17.6°C · 120 mm rain
- Kapiri Mposhi in MarchZambia · 166 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 17.3°C · 141 mm rain
- Choma in MarchZambia · 203 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 Namalombwe) is explained once on the Namalombwe year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Lusaka lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.