Weather in Chefchaouen in March

A good month. March works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 17.9 °C, lows 7.3 °C, and rain falls on 11 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 7 of 12 in Chefchaouen: past the worst of the year but short of May, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 11 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 17.9 °C days and 7.3 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 28.1 °C and the coldest night fell to -2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 85 mm — roughly 70% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. March rainfall has ranged from 13 mm to 538 mm across the twenty years measured — a 525 mm spread around an average of 121 mm. The average is real but almost no individual March looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 5.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 77%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 2.6 °C warmer than February, and April adds another 2.6 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in March

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

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 31.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

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

March in Chefchaouen versus nearby

If Chefchaouen is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Tangier is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Fes is a better bet in March — 3.8 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: March works, with May the better month by 17 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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