Climate averages 1991–2020

Gweru weather
in March.

A warm, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 24.8°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 15.3°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 82 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a warm month in Gweru: daytime highs average 24.8°C and nights cool to about 15.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 82 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 13 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kwekwe (58 km away). In March its highs average 27.6°C, 2.8°C warmer than Gweru, with 63 mm of rain.

Among the 11 cities listed in Zimbabwe, Gweru ranks 8th of 11 for the warmest March highs and 5th of 11 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 11 cities is 25.6°C; Gweru is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 23.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 82 mm to 28 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Gweru climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Gweru, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	25.3°C16.4°C	16.4°C	161	15.7	13.213 h
February	25.3°C16.2°C	16.2°C	122	12.9	12.713 h
March, selected	24.8°C15.3°C	15.3°C	82	10.5	12.212 h
April	23.4°C13.1°C	13.1°C	28	4.0	11.712 h
May	22.0°C10.5°C	10.5°C	6.8	1.4	11.211 h
June	19.9°C8.1°C	8.1°C	3.7	0.7	11.011 h
July	19.4°C7.5°C	7.5°C	2.9	0.9	11.111 h
August	23.2°C9.5°C	9.5°C	0.6	0.1	11.511 h
September	27.0°C12.7°C	12.7°C	4.4	0.8	12.012 h
October	28.4°C15.0°C	15.0°C	25	4.8	12.513 h
November	27.5°C16.3°C	16.3°C	98	12.3	13.013 h
December	25.9°C16.4°C	16.4°C	184	17.6	13.313 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

Distance from Gweru

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Gweru) is explained once on the Gweru year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.