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Places with the best weather in Africa in March: ranked by comfort score

Agadir tops the list at 97 /100 in March. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Africa.

Top three in March: Agadir (97 /100) , Suez (95 /100) , Ait Melloul (95 /100) . Between first and 50th place the comfort differs by 7.9 /100.

# Destination Country Comfort Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Agadir Morocco 97 /100 23 °C 13 °C 38 mm 4 347 h 17 °C
2 Suez Egypt 95 /100 24 °C 12 °C 5 mm 1 349 h –
3 Ait Melloul Morocco 95 /100 23 °C 13 °C 32 mm 4 348 h 17 °C
4 Kafr ash Shaykh Egypt 95 /100 23 °C 11 °C 8 mm 1 341 h –
5 Az Zāwīyah Libya 94 /100 21 °C 11 °C 19 mm 4 329 h 16 °C
6 Damanhur Egypt 94 /100 23 °C 10 °C 8 mm 1 342 h –
7 Zagazig Egypt 94 /100 24 °C 10 °C 6 mm 1 338 h –
8 Al Mansurah Egypt 94 /100 24 °C 10 °C 7 mm 2 341 h –
9 Damietta Egypt 94 /100 20 °C 13 °C 10 mm 2 344 h 17 °C
10 Idkū Egypt 94 /100 21 °C 12 °C 12 mm 2 342 h 17 °C
11 Al Fayyum Egypt 94 /100 25 °C 11 °C 3 mm 0 350 h –
12 Cairo Egypt 94 /100 24 °C 11 °C 4 mm 1 346 h –
13 Al Maţarīyah Egypt 94 /100 21 °C 13 °C 10 mm 2 345 h 17 °C
14 Biskra Algeria 94 /100 22 °C 9.7 °C 16 mm 2 335 h –
15 Alexandria Egypt 94 /100 20 °C 12 °C 11 mm 2 343 h 17 °C
16 Hurghada Egypt 93 /100 24 °C 16 °C 2 mm 0 358 h 22 °C
17 Port Said Egypt 93 /100 21 °C 13 °C 8 mm 2 344 h 17 °C
18 Jalālābād Afghanistan 93 /100 20 °C 11 °C 50 mm 8 301 h –
19 Tripoli Libya 93 /100 20 °C 12 °C 20 mm 4 331 h 16 °C
20 6th of October City Egypt 93 /100 24 °C 9.8 °C 4 mm 1 348 h –
21 Ismailia Egypt 93 /100 24 °C 10 °C 6 mm 1 336 h –
22 New Cairo Egypt 92 /100 23 °C 9.6 °C 5 mm 1 346 h –
23 Al ‘Āshir min Ramaḑān Egypt 92 /100 23 °C 10 °C 5 mm 1 345 h –
24 Minya Egypt 92 /100 25 °C 11 °C 2 mm 0 354 h –
25 Zliten Libya 92 /100 21 °C 11 °C 18 mm 4 334 h 16 °C
26 El Oued Algeria 92 /100 22 °C 9.8 °C 9 mm 2 337 h –
27 Harar Ethiopia 92 /100 26 °C 15 °C 47 mm 7 338 h –
28 Ouargla Algeria 91 /100 24 °C 11 °C 5 mm 1 343 h –
29 Marrakesh Morocco 91 /100 22 °C 7.2 °C 39 mm 6 330 h –
30 Shashamane Ethiopia 91 /100 25 °C 14 °C 47 mm 8 340 h –
31 Arīsh Egypt 91 /100 21 °C 11 °C 11 mm 2 345 h 18 °C
32 Settat Morocco 91 /100 21 °C 9.9 °C 41 mm 7 324 h –
33 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 91 /100 24 °C 11 °C 65 mm 10 339 h –
34 Mallawī Egypt 90 /100 26 °C 12 °C 1 mm 0 354 h –
35 Cape Town South Africa 90 /100 24 °C 16 °C 12 mm 3 354 h 17 °C
36 Béchar Algeria 90 /100 22 °C 9.3 °C 8 mm 2 345 h –
37 Marsá Maţrūḩ Egypt 90 /100 20 °C 11 °C 6 mm 2 335 h 17 °C
38 Laayoune Western Sahara 90 /100 24 °C 14 °C 5 mm 1 354 h 18 °C
39 Kandahār Afghanistan 90 /100 21 °C 6.3 °C 46 mm 6 328 h –
40 Benghazi Libya 90 /100 20 °C 12 °C 17 mm 3 338 h 17 °C
41 Casablanca Morocco 90 /100 20 °C 11 °C 36 mm 6 328 h 17 °C
42 Bishoftu Ethiopia 90 /100 26 °C 13 °C 30 mm 6 341 h –
43 Nakuru Kenya 90 /100 27 °C 14 °C 53 mm 7 347 h –
44 Safi Morocco 89 /100 21 °C 12 °C 32 mm 5 341 h 17 °C
45 Jijiga Ethiopia 89 /100 28 °C 15 °C 26 mm 4 343 h –
46 Gonder Ethiopia 89 /100 27 °C 14 °C 23 mm 5 345 h –
47 Temara Morocco 89 /100 20 °C 11 °C 50 mm 7 325 h 17 °C
48 Asmara Eritrea 89 /100 23 °C 11 °C 46 mm 11 338 h –
49 Kitale Kenya 89 /100 23 °C 12 °C 92 mm 12 339 h –
50 Mohammedia Morocco 89 /100 20 °C 12 °C 37 mm 6 328 h 17 °C

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

February: top 5

  1. Kitale 97 /100
  2. Addis Ababa 96 /100
  3. Agadir 96 /100
  4. Mek'ele 96 /100
  5. Shashamane 96 /100

Full ranking for February

April: top 5

  1. Polokwane 96 /100
  2. Harare 96 /100
  3. Pretoria 96 /100
  4. Centurion 96 /100
  5. Soshanguve 96 /100

Full ranking for April

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Our 0–100 comfort score for sightseeing weather (formula on the methodology page), in March, highest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Africa with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by fewest wet days.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering and the score is ours.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.