Ziguinchor weather in March

Name: Ziguinchor
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In March, Ziguinchor has daytime highs averaging 37 °C, nights around 21 °C, with 0.03 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

37.0°C Average high
20.8°C Average low
0.03days Wet days
under 1mm Rainfall
12h Daylight

Daily temperatures through March

Daily highDaily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 37.9 °C and lows bottom out at 20.2 °C.

How March develops

Averages for the first, middle and last part of the month, from daily 1991–2020 normals. Chance of rain is the share of years in which that calendar day recorded more than 1 mm.

Days	Avg high	Avg low
1–10 March	37.0 °C	20.5 °C
11–20 March	37.0 °C	20.9 °C
21–31 March	36.9 °C	21.0 °C

Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in March. Wettest date over the 30 years: March 29, at 3 %. Single dates are noisy — read the shape, not the spikes.

What to expect

Measure	Typical March	Share of the month
Days above 25 °C	31 of 31	100 %
Days above 30 °C	31 of 31	100 %
Days below 0 °C	0 of 31	0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain	0.03 of 31	0 %

Conditions in March

Measure	Average
Mean temperature	28 °C
Record high (1991–2020)	42 °C
Record low (1991–2020)	17 °C
Relative humidity	42 %
Wind speed	15 km/h
Cloud cover	28 %

Where Ziguinchor ranks in March

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Africa in March	13thof 50	0.2 mm
The driest places in the world in March	13thof 50	0.2 mm
The warmest places in Africa in March	35thof 50	37 °C
The warmest places in the world in March	39thof 50	37 °C

March compared with the months around it

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	33.4 °C	1 mm	41 %
February	35.4 °C	1 mm	35 %
March	37.0 °C	under 1 mm	28 %
April	37.1 °C	0 mm	31 %
May	36.0 °C	2 mm	39 %

See all twelve months for Ziguinchor

March is the 2nd warmest month here.
It is the 2nd driest month of the year.
It ranks 1st for least cloud cover.
Days last about 12 hours from sunrise to sunset.
It rains on 0.03 of 31 days — 0 % of the month.
Nights are about 16 °C cooler than the middle of the day.
The hottest March day on record since 1991 reached 42 °C, 5.0 °C above the usual daytime high.

Nearby destinations in March

Destination	Avg high	Wet days	Sea
Ziguinchor	37 °C	0.03	–
Banjul	31 °C	0	20
Serekunda	29 °C	0	20
Bissau	35 °C	0	26
Kaolack	36 °C	0	–
Mbour	32 °C	0	19
Diourbel	36 °C	0	–

QuestionsMarch in Ziguinchor, answered

How warm is Ziguinchor in March?

Daily highs average 37 °C and nights fall to about 21 °C, a spread of 16 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes March the 4th warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Ziguinchor in March?

March averages under 1 mm of rain, spread over about 0 of the 31 days — 0 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 28 % of the sky.

How long are the days in March?

Ziguinchor averages 12 hours between sunrise and sunset in March. Day length is computed from latitude and date, so it is exact rather than modelled — but it says nothing about how much of that time is sunny.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: daylight hours, beach and comfort scores, monthly rankings, threshold day counts, chance of a wet day by date, ten-day averages within the month. 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.