Weather & wind
Essaouira in March: weather, wind and sea
March in Essaouira: 8 hours of sunshine a day, 4 rainy days and 12 windy days above 15 knots.
Climate normals · 1991–2020
- Temperature
- 13–19 °C
- Mean wind (daily max)
- 14 kn · N
- Days of wind > 15 kn
- 12
- Sunshine
- 8 h/day (1961–1990)
- Rainy days
- 4 · 38.1 mm
Source: WMO/OMM 1991–2020 (DMN, station 60220) · DWD 1961–1990 · Open-Meteo ERA5/IFS (CC BY 4.0)
Temperatures in March
In March, the mean high is 19.4 °C and the mean low 13.3 °C, a gap of 6.1 °C between afternoon and night. That is 1.2 °C below the year’s average high (20.6 °C). Nights run 1.8 °C cooler than the year’s average low (15.1 °C). The afternoons are warming: 18.7 °C in February, 19.5 °C in April. A light jumper is enough in the evening, more so near the water.
Wind in March
The wind passes 15 knots on about 12 days out of 31, against 12 days in an average month. February has 10 days, April 15. It blows mostly from the north, and its daily peak averages 14 knots. These figures are our own count over thirty years of modelled weather data (the ERA5 reanalysis, then the ECMWF’s IFS model from 2017), 1991 to 2020. Over 2011–2020, the Essaouira station’s hourly reports count 17 days at 15 knots or more in the month. The two sources differ here by more than 2 days. We count March in the kitesurf and windsurf season.
Rain and sunshine in March
Expect about 4 days with 1 mm of rain or more, 38.1 mm in all. That is 13% of the year’s 299.7 mm. February gets 37.3 mm, April 17.3 mm.
The sun shines for 8 hours a day on average, from the station’s 1961–1990 records. That is 67% of the 12 hours or so the sun is up. The year averages 8.2 hours a day.