Weather in Geraldton in March

Prime time. March is about as good as Geraldton gets. Highs average 25.7 °C, lows 22.1 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 3 of 12 in Geraldton. Only January scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 2 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. 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: the day barely swings — 3.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 35.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 16.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 56 mm — roughly 400% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. March rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 131 mm across the twenty years measured — a 131 mm spread around an average of 14 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 sits around 21.8 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity is unremarkable at 72%.

How March sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 25.8 °C in February, 25.7 here, 23.9 in April. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in March

12.3 hours of daylight, losing 0.9 hours across the month. That is between Geraldton's extremes of 14 and 10.3 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 23.7 °C in March — comfortable for a proper swim. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead. If the dates are flexible, September is the trade worth considering — 10 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

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

March in Geraldton versus nearby

If Geraldton is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Perth is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Bunbury is the weaker option in March — 3.1 °C warmer, 1 day more rain.

So: March is effectively as good as it gets here — 0 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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