Weather in Albany in March

Prime time. March is about as good as Albany gets. Highs average 22.2 °C, lows 17 °C, and rain falls on 8 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 4 of 12 in Albany: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 8 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: the day barely swings — 5.2 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 33.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 12.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 49 mm — roughly 126% of the month's rain in one day.

March is moderately variable: 12 mm in the driest year against 85 mm in the wettest, around an average of 39 mm. Roughly two Marchs in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 18 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How March sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 22.5 °C in February, 22.2 here, 20.9 in April. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in March

12.4 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Albany's extremes of 14.5 and 9.8 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 19.8 °C in March — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

March in Albany versus nearby

If Albany is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bunbury is close enough to be a coin toss — 6.6 °C warmer, 5 days less rain. Perth is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.7 °C warmer, 5 days less rain.

So: March is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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