Weather in Delhi in March

A good month. March works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 32.8 °C, lows 15.3 °C, and rain falls on 3 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 6 of 12 in Delhi: past the worst of the year but short of December, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 3 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 32.8 °C days and 15.3 °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: 10 days clear 35 °C, so a serious heatwave is normal rather than notable; the day swings 17.5 °C from low to high, which means one bag has to cover both. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 42.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 38 mm — roughly 211% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. March rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 87 mm across the twenty years measured — a 87 mm spread around an average of 18 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 7.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and the air is dry at 33% humidity, which makes the heat far more bearable than the same figure somewhere humid — and dehydrates you faster than you expect.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 6.4 °C warmer than February, and April adds another 6.3 °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 0.9 hours across the month. That is between Delhi's extremes of 14 and 10.3 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 35.8 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. Within March itself the daily swing is 17.5 °C, so mornings and afternoons need different clothes.

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 Delhi versus nearby

If Delhi is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Agra is the weaker option in March — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Rishīkesh is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.3 °C cooler, 2 days more rain.

So: March is a compromise. December is 29 points better and is what Delhi is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

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