Weather in Budta in March

A hard month. March is a hard month in Budta, and worth planning around. Highs average 32.5 °C, lows 23 °C, and rain falls on 14 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Budta barely has seasons. March scores 48 out of 100 against a best of 51 in February — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose. That is not a contradiction: March is among the best months Budta has, and it is still hard going. This is a city with no easy season rather than a city you have caught at a bad time.

Rain on 14 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 32.5 °C days and 23 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 29 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 37.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 18.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 104 mm — roughly 88% of the month's rain in one day.

March is moderately variable: 13 mm in the driest year against 303 mm in the wettest, around an average of 118 mm. Roughly two Marchs in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 4.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 81%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How March sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 31.8 °C in February, 32.5 here, 33.2 in April. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in March

Budta sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.1 hours in March, against a range of just 0.8 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 10.8 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

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 Budta versus nearby

If Budta is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Davao is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Cagayan de Oro is a better bet in March — 2 °C cooler, 1 day less rain.

So: March is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 points behind February, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Budta

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