Weather in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in March

Prime time. March is about as good as Las Palmas de Gran Canaria gets. Highs average 19.2 °C, lows 16.6 °C, and rain falls on 4 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria barely has seasons. March scores 91 out of 100 against a best of 100 in June — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.

Rain falls on only 4 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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average March reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 2.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 24.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 14 °C.

March is moderately variable: 4 mm in the driest year against 35 mm in the wettest, around an average of 15 mm. Roughly two Marchs in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 19.7 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 77%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How March sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 18.7 °C in February, 19.2 here, 19.9 in April. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in March

12 hours of daylight, gaining 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's extremes of 13.9 and 10.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 18.8 °C in March — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 23.9 °C in September and bottoms out at 18.8 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

March in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria versus nearby

If Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Funchal is the weaker option in March — 2.7 °C cooler, 5 days more rain. Agadir is close enough to be a coin toss — 7.1 °C warmer, 1 day more rain.

So: March works, with June the better month by 9 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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