Weather in Évora in March

A good month. March works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 18.1 °C, lows 6.2 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 9 days, 2 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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average March reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 27.8 °C and the coldest night fell to -3.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 37 mm — roughly 60% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. March rainfall has ranged from 10 mm to 202 mm across the twenty years measured — a 192 mm spread around an average of 62 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 9.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 76%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 2.7 °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 1.3 hours across the month. That is between Évora's extremes of 14.8 and 9.5 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 30.1 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Évora versus nearby

If Évora is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Lisbon is the weaker option in March — 2.5 °C cooler, 1 day more rain. Leiria is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: March works, with May the better month by 12 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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