Weather in Kakamega in March

Shoulder season. March sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. You should expect rain on 15 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

March ranks 12 of 12 — near the bottom of Kakamega's year. January is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 23 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 15 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 29.7 °C days and 16.2 °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: 16 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 34.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 12.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 56 mm — roughly 44% of the month's rain in one day.

March is moderately variable: 38 mm in the driest year against 312 mm in the wettest, around an average of 128 mm. Roughly two Marchs in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 8.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 64%.

How March sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.4 °C in February, 29.7 here, 27.4 in April. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: April brings 8 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in March

Kakamega sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.1 hours in March, against a range of just 0 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: 14.9 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 1563 m, altitude is doing as much work here as latitude: thinner air means fierce sun by day and heat that leaves the moment it sets.

How busy it gets

Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.

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

March in Kakamega versus nearby

If Kakamega is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nakuru is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Nairobi is a better bet in March — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain.

So: March is a compromise. January is 23 points better and is what Kakamega is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Kakamega

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