Chitipa weather in March

In March, Chitipa sees average daytime highs of 26°C and overnight lows near 18°C, with 182 mm of rain across 26.3 wet days and about 12.1 hours of daylight. It is the 7th-warmest and 3rd-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 26°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 5% of the time in March, and the air most often feels humid.

Daylight stretches from about 12 h 12 min at the start of March to 11 h 54 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, March is Chitipa's 10th-clearest and 10th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Chitipa's year-round climate.

Daytime high: 26°; 7th warmest
Overnight low: 18°; 10th coldest
Rainfall: 182 mm; 26.3 wet days
Daylight: 12 h 06 min; 5:55 AM – 5:59 PM
Cloud cover: 83%; 10th clearest
Wind: 6 km/h; 10th windiest
Solar energy: 5.19 kWh/m²
Travel score: 4.1; out of 10

Chitipa is city in Malawi.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

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Temperature in March

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 26°C through the month.

A typical March day in Chitipa reaches about 26°C in the afternoon and slips back to 18°C overnight — a 8°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 23°C and 28°C. Set against its neighbours, March runs on par with February and on par with April.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Avg high (°C)	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	25	25	25	25	25
Avg low (°C)	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	26	18
2	26	18
3	26	18
4	26	18
5	26	18
6	26	18
7	26	18
8	26	18
9	26	18
10	26	18
11	26	18
12	26	18
13	26	18
14	26	18
15	26	18
16	26	18
17	26	18
18	26	18
19	26	18
20	26	18
21	26	18
22	26	18
23	26	18
24	26	18
25	26	18
26	26	18
27	25	18
28	25	18
29	25	18
30	25	18
31	25	18

Chitipa weather by month

How March compares with the rest of the year at a glance. March is the 7th-warmest and 3rd-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

Month	High / Low (°C)	Rainfall (mm)	Wet days	Daylight (hours)	Travel score
Jan	26° / 18°	198	27.2	12.5	3.8
Feb	26° / 18°	160	23.8	12.3	3.9
Mar	26° / 18°	182	26.3	12.1	4.1
Apr	25° / 17°	103	18.6	11.8	5.4
May	25° / 15°	15	5.1	11.6	7.9
Jun	23° / 13°	4	1.3	11.4	8.6
Jul	23° / 12°	4	1.4	11.5	8.6
Aug	25° / 13°	3	0.7	11.7	8.9
Sep	27° / 15°	3	0.6	11.9	8.3
Oct	29° / 18°	16	4.2	12.2	6.5
Nov	29° / 18°	84	13.2	12.4	5.1
Dec	27° / 18°	197	24.1	12.6	4.3

Cloud cover in March

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 5% of the time in March.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 9% of March, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 86%.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Clearer (%)	8	9	11	11	11	12	12	13	12	12	13	13	14	15	15	15	14	14	15	15	15	16	16	17	17	17	18	19	20	20	21
Cloudier (%)	92	91	89	89	89	88	88	87	88	88	87	87	86	85	85	85	86	86	85	85	85	84	84	83	83	83	82	81	80	80	79

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	8	92
2	9	91
3	11	89
4	11	89
5	11	89
6	12	88
7	12	88
8	13	87
9	12	88
10	12	88
11	13	87
12	13	87
13	14	86
14	15	85
15	15	85
16	15	85
17	14	86
18	14	86
19	15	85
20	15	85
21	15	85
22	16	84
23	16	84
24	17	83
25	17	83
26	17	83
27	18	82
28	19	81
29	20	80
30	20	80
31	21	79

Chance of precipitation in March

Any precipitation

Chitipa gets around 182 mm of rain over 26.3 wet days in March. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 85% and peaks near 87% on the wettest days.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Rain chance (%)	85	85	86	86	86	86	87	87	87	87	86	86	86	86	85	85	84	84	84	83	83	83	83	83	83	83	83	84	84	84	84

	Rain chance (%)
1	85
2	85
3	86
4	86
5	86
6	86
7	87
8	87
9	87
10	87
11	86
12	86
13	86
14	86
15	85
16	85
17	84
18	84
19	84
20	83
21	83
22	83
23	83
24	83
25	83
26	83
27	83
28	84
29	84
30	84
31	84

Humidity in March

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of March feels humid — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, March lands in the humid band about 75% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 25% of them.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Humid (%)	71	71	71	72	72	72	72	72	72	72	72	72	72	73	73	73	74	74	74	75	76	76	77	77	78	79	80	80	81	81	82
Muggy (%)	29	29	29	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	27	27	27	26	26	26	25	24	24	23	23	22	21	20	20	19	19	18

	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)
1	71	29
2	71	29
3	71	29
4	72	28
5	72	28
6	72	28
7	72	28
8	72	28
9	72	28
10	72	28
11	72	28
12	72	28
13	72	28
14	73	27
15	73	27
16	73	27
17	74	26
18	74	26
19	74	26
20	75	25
21	76	24
22	76	24
23	77	23
24	77	23
25	78	22
26	79	21
27	80	20
28	80	20
29	81	19
30	81	19
31	82	18

Wind in March

Winds average 6 km/h in March.

Across March, daily wind ranges from about 5 km/h on the calmest days to 7 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Wind speed (km/h)	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
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	Wind speed (km/h)	Feels
1	5	calm
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4	5	calm
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6	5	calm
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23	6	calm
24	7	calm
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26	7	calm
27	7	calm
28	7	calm
29	7	calm
30	7	calm
31	7	calm

Sunrise & sunset in March

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 12 h 12 min at the start of March to 11 h 54 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 18 minutes over March. Sunrise moves from 5:54 AM to 5:54 AM, and sunset from 6:06 PM to 5:50 PM.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Daylight (h)	12.2	12.2	12.2	12.2	12.2	12.2	12.1	12.1	12.1	12.1	12.1	12.1	12.1	12.1	12.1	12.1	12.1	12.0	12.0	12.0	12.0	12.0	12.0	12.0	12.0	12.0	12.0	12.0	11.9	11.9	11.9
Sunrise (AM)	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:55	5:55	5:55	5:55	5:55	5:55	5:55	5:55	5:55	5:55	5:55	5:55	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54	5:54
Sunset (PM)	6:06	6:06	6:05	6:05	6:04	6:04	6:03	6:03	6:02	6:02	6:01	6:01	6:00	6:00	5:59	5:59	5:58	5:57	5:57	5:56	5:56	5:55	5:55	5:54	5:53	5:53	5:52	5:52	5:51	5:50	5:50

	Daylight (h)	Sunrise (AM)	Sunset (PM)
1	12.2	5:54	6:06
2	12.2	5:54	6:06
3	12.2	5:54	6:05
4	12.2	5:54	6:05
5	12.2	5:54	6:04
6	12.2	5:54	6:04
7	12.1	5:54	6:03
8	12.1	5:55	6:03
9	12.1	5:55	6:02
10	12.1	5:55	6:02
11	12.1	5:55	6:01
12	12.1	5:55	6:01
13	12.1	5:55	6:00
14	12.1	5:55	6:00
15	12.1	5:55	5:59
16	12.1	5:55	5:59
17	12.1	5:55	5:58
18	12.0	5:55	5:57
19	12.0	5:55	5:57
20	12.0	5:54	5:56
21	12.0	5:54	5:56
22	12.0	5:54	5:55
23	12.0	5:54	5:55
24	12.0	5:54	5:54
25	12.0	5:54	5:53
26	12.0	5:54	5:53
27	12.0	5:54	5:52
28	12.0	5:54	5:52
29	11.9	5:54	5:51
30	11.9	5:54	5:50
31	11.9	5:54	5:50

Solar energy in March

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in March, about 5.19 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 4.9 kWh/m² to a high of 7.08 kWh/m² in October across the year — March's 5.19 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Solar energy (kWh/m²)	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.1	5.1	5.1	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0
Level	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright

	Solar energy (kWh/m²)	Level
1	5.3	Bright
2	5.3	Bright
3	5.3	Bright
4	5.3	Bright
5	5.3	Bright
6	5.3	Bright
7	5.3	Bright
8	5.3	Bright
9	5.3	Bright
10	5.2	Bright
11	5.2	Bright
12	5.2	Bright
13	5.2	Bright
14	5.2	Bright
15	5.2	Bright
16	5.2	Bright
17	5.2	Bright
18	5.2	Bright
19	5.2	Bright
20	5.2	Bright
21	5.2	Bright
22	5.1	Bright
23	5.1	Bright
24	5.1	Bright
25	5.1	Bright
26	5.1	Bright
27	5.0	Bright
28	5.0	Bright
29	5.0	Bright
30	5.0	Bright
31	5.0	Bright

Planning a trip in March

Hazard calendar for Chitipa

In seasonPeak

In March, Chitipa sits inside its monsoon season. The full year is below, with each hazard's peak months called out.

Chitipa's monsoon runs December–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Is March a good time to visit Chitipa?

Our two travel scores rate March for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

4.1

Sightseeing

10th-best month of the year

3.9

Beach & pool

10th-best month of the year

March is a reasonable time to visit Chitipa for sightseeing.

What to pack for Chitipa in March

From March's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In March, Chitipa sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 18°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 26 days see rain.

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UV index in Chitipa in March

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in March peaks around 16 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Chitipa peaks around February 19 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 15 at about 10 (extreme).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
UV index (midday)	16	16	16	14	10	10	11	11	12	14	13	13
Level	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme

	UV index (midday)	Level
Jan	16	Extreme
Feb	16	Extreme
Mar	16	Extreme
Apr	14	Extreme
May	10	Extreme
Jun	10	Extreme
Jul	11	Extreme
Aug	11	Extreme
Sep	12	Extreme
Oct	14	Extreme
Nov	13	Extreme
Dec	13	Extreme

Air quality in Chitipa in March

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where March falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Chitipa is worst in October — around 39 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 5.0× the cleanest month (May, 8 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
PM2.5 (µg/m³)	11	12	11	9	8	10	18	28	31	39	17	9
Level	Good	Good	Good	Good	Good	Good	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Poor	Moderate	Good

	PM2.5 (µg/m³)	Level
Jan	11	Good
Feb	12	Good
Mar	11	Good
Apr	9	Good
May	8	Good
Jun	10	Good
Jul	18	Moderate
Aug	28	Moderate
Sep	31	Moderate
Oct	39	Poor
Nov	17	Moderate
Dec	9	Good

Location & terrain

Where is Chitipa?

Chitipa sits at 9.7°S, 33.3°E, 1,286 m above sea level, in Malawi. The nearest listed city is Katumba, 65 km away.

Topography around Chitipa

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Chitipa.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Chitipa has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 116 m around an average of 1,276 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 890 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,457 m.

The land around Chitipa is covered by cropland (68%) within 3 km, cropland (40%) and shrubs (38%) within 16 km, and trees (40%), shrubs (29%) and cropland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km

116 m

cropland 68%

16 km

890 m

cropland 40%

80 km

2,457 m

trees 40%

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← February Chitipa year-round climate April →Best places to visit in March

March weather nearby: Katumba 65 km · Kyela 65 km · Tukuyu 65 km · Kiwira 66 km · Nakonde 70 km · Tunduma 71 km · Ipinda 73 km · Vwawa 76 km

Malawi travel facts

Travel advisory: Level 2; Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs: Type G; 230 V · 50 Hz
Prices: ≈ 53% of US; price level, 2025
GDP per capita: $672; 2025
Happiness: 3.3 / 10; World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water: 18%; of population, 2024
Homicide rate: 1.8; per 100k, 2012
Road deaths: 33.4; per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group: Low; World Bank
English: Low; EF EPI 465
Religion

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Chitipa (-9.7024°, 33.2697°, elevation 1,286 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	26	18
2	26	18
3	26	18
4	26	18
5	26	18
6	26	18
7	26	18
8	26	18
9	26	18
10	26	18
11	26	18
12	26	18
13	26	18
14	26	18
15	26	18
16	26	18
17	26	18
18	26	18
19	26	18
20	26	18
21	26	18
22	26	18
23	26	18
24	26	18
25	26	18
26	26	18
27	25	18
28	25	18
29	25	18
30	25	18
31	25	18

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	8	92
2	9	91
3	11	89
4	11	89
5	11	89
6	12	88
7	12	88
8	13	87
9	12	88
10	12	88
11	13	87
12	13	87
13	14	86
14	15	85
15	15	85
16	15	85
17	14	86
18	14	86
19	15	85
20	15	85
21	15	85
22	16	84
23	16	84
24	17	83
25	17	83
26	17	83
27	18	82
28	19	81
29	20	80
30	20	80
31	21	79

	Rain chance (%)
1	85
2	85
3	86
4	86
5	86
6	86
7	87
8	87
9	87
10	87
11	86
12	86
13	86
14	86
15	85
16	85
17	84
18	84
19	84
20	83
21	83
22	83
23	83
24	83
25	83
26	83
27	83
28	84
29	84
30	84
31	84

	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)
1	71	29
2	71	29
3	71	29
4	72	28
5	72	28
6	72	28
7	72	28
8	72	28
9	72	28
10	72	28
11	72	28
12	72	28
13	72	28
14	73	27
15	73	27
16	73	27
17	74	26
18	74	26
19	74	26
20	75	25
21	76	24
22	76	24
23	77	23
24	77	23
25	78	22
26	79	21
27	80	20
28	80	20
29	81	19
30	81	19
31	82	18

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	26	18
2	26	18
3	26	18
4	26	18
5	26	18
6	26	18
7	26	18
8	26	18
9	26	18
10	26	18
11	26	18
12	26	18
13	26	18
14	26	18
15	26	18
16	26	18
17	26	18
18	26	18
19	26	18
20	26	18
21	26	18
22	26	18
23	26	18
24	26	18
25	26	18
26	26	18
27	25	18
28	25	18
29	25	18
30	25	18
31	25	18

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	8	92
2	9	91
3	11	89
4	11	89
5	11	89
6	12	88
7	12	88
8	13	87
9	12	88
10	12	88
11	13	87
12	13	87
13	14	86
14	15	85
15	15	85
16	15	85
17	14	86
18	14	86
19	15	85
20	15	85
21	15	85
22	16	84
23	16	84
24	17	83
25	17	83
26	17	83
27	18	82
28	19	81
29	20	80
30	20	80
31	21	79

	Rain chance (%)
1	85
2	85
3	86
4	86
5	86
6	86
7	87
8	87
9	87
10	87
11	86
12	86
13	86
14	86
15	85
16	85
17	84
18	84
19	84
20	83
21	83
22	83
23	83
24	83
25	83
26	83
27	83
28	84
29	84
30	84
31	84

	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)
1	71	29
2	71	29
3	71	29
4	72	28
5	72	28
6	72	28
7	72	28
8	72	28
9	72	28
10	72	28
11	72	28
12	72	28
13	72	28
14	73	27
15	73	27
16	73	27
17	74	26
18	74	26
19	74	26
20	75	25
21	76	24
22	76	24
23	77	23
24	77	23
25	78	22
26	79	21
27	80	20
28	80	20
29	81	19
30	81	19
31	82	18

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	26	18
2	26	18
3	26	18
4	26	18
5	26	18
6	26	18
7	26	18
8	26	18
9	26	18
10	26	18
11	26	18
12	26	18
13	26	18
14	26	18
15	26	18
16	26	18
17	26	18
18	26	18
19	26	18
20	26	18
21	26	18
22	26	18
23	26	18
24	26	18
25	26	18
26	26	18
27	25	18
28	25	18
29	25	18
30	25	18
31	25	18

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	8	92
2	9	91
3	11	89
4	11	89
5	11	89
6	12	88
7	12	88
8	13	87
9	12	88
10	12	88
11	13	87
12	13	87
13	14	86
14	15	85
15	15	85
16	15	85
17	14	86
18	14	86
19	15	85
20	15	85
21	15	85
22	16	84
23	16	84
24	17	83
25	17	83
26	17	83
27	18	82
28	19	81
29	20	80
30	20	80
31	21	79

	Rain chance (%)
1	85
2	85
3	86
4	86
5	86
6	86
7	87
8	87
9	87
10	87
11	86
12	86
13	86
14	86
15	85
16	85
17	84
18	84
19	84
20	83
21	83
22	83
23	83
24	83
25	83
26	83
27	83
28	84
29	84
30	84
31	84

	Humid (%)	Muggy (%)
1	71	29
2	71	29
3	71	29
4	72	28
5	72	28
6	72	28
7	72	28
8	72	28
9	72	28
10	72	28
11	72	28
12	72	28
13	72	28
14	73	27
15	73	27
16	73	27
17	74	26
18	74	26
19	74	26
20	75	25
21	76	24
22	76	24
23	77	23
24	77	23
25	78	22
26	79	21
27	80	20
28	80	20
29	81	19
30	81	19
31	82	18