Weather in Cali in March

Shoulder season. March sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. You should expect rain on 17 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

March ranks 8 of 12 in Cali: past the worst of the year but short of August, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

This is persistent light rain rather than storms: 17 wet days but only 2 heavy ones. It rarely cancels anything outright, and it rarely fully clears either. A jacket beats an umbrella. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 84% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 16 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 35.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 18.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 28 mm — roughly 29% of the month's rain in one day.

March is moderately variable: 32 mm in the driest year against 248 mm in the wettest, around an average of 96 mm. Roughly two Marchs in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 4.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 84%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How March sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.6 °C in February, 30.2 here, 30.1 in April. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain has already shifted: 5 days more than February had.

Daylight in March

Cali sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.1 hours in March, against a range of just 0.4 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. At 758 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

March in Cali versus nearby

If Cali is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bogotá is a better bet in March — 10.6 °C cooler, 3 days more rain. Medellín is a better bet in March — 4.9 °C cooler, 7 days more rain.

So: March works, with August the better month by 15 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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