The sun-drenched Cape Verde has a subtropical dry climate. Spring starts in the month of March and the temperature climbs, while the sun shows itself generously. The average number of sunshine hours per day is listed for every month in the climate overview by month. The ever-present and cooling trade winds on the archipelago ensure that - despite the high temperature - you can enjoy the Cape Verde islands. The Cape Verde archipelago consists of nine inhabited islands, namely Sal, Boa Vista, São Nicolau, São Vicente, Santo Antão, Santiago, Maio, Fogo and Brava. In short, March has excellent weather conditions to be enjoyed.

What kind of weather can you expect in Cape Verde in March? Below you will find the averages of the most important meteorological variables for you. These are the average daytime maximum, the sea temperature and the days of rain, as the climate table gives them. The weather data for the month of March is based on historical weather data and does not provide an actual weather forecast for Cape Verde.

In short

  • Temperatures 25.2°C
  • Still part of the dry season
  • Winds begin to ease slightly
  • Sea temperature 22°C
  • Plenty of sunshine

Temperature in March

The average daytime maximum in March is 25.2 degrees Celsius. The month is flat in profile: March has few warm or cool outliers.

Maximum temperature in March - Cape Verde

Maximum temperature — day by day within the month

Rain in March

The climate table records 0 days of rain for March. Cape Verde is one of the twenty driest countries in the world for a reason.

Rain in March - Cape Verde

Rainfall — day by day within the month

Wind in March

In March the trade wind still blows firmly, easing a little towards the end of the month. It remains a good month for surfing. The climate table carries no wind values.

The weather in Cape Verde in other months

Data accounting

Every figure on this page comes from the climate table on Cape Verde climate and weather: measuring station Sal, Amílcar Cabral airport (Espargos), reference period the 1991–2020 climate normal. A day of rain is a day with at least 1 millimetre of rainfall. Those values hold for Sal and for the flat eastern islands. The other islands have no measuring series of their own, so we give no figures island by island. On the mountainous islands such as Santo Antão and Fogo it is cooler and wetter at altitude.

The graph above shows something different from the table: how the month runs day by day, taken from the historical daily reports of weather station 85940 over 2012 to 2018. That series is not a climate normal and is not the source of any figure in the text; it is there to show whether a month runs flat or erratic.