Climate · Algiers

Algiers in March

Mild and damp, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

March in Algiers is mild: highs near 67°F, lows near 48°F. Rain falls on about two days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 7 minutes from the first week to the last.March in Algiers is mild: highs near 19°C, lows near 9°C. Rain falls on about two days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 7 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
67°F19°Caverage
Low
48°F9°Caverage
Wet days
2a week · 33% of days
Daylight
11h 54mon average

Is March a good time to visit Algiers?


A good month, just outside Algiers's best months, which run in two parts: April to May, or October.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How March sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 67°F in March, against 63°F to 94°F through the year.Highs near 19°C in March, against 17°C to 34°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

33% of days in March, against 1% to 39% through the year.

Cloud cover

42% cover in March, against 14% to 46% through the year.

Daylight

11h 54m in March, against 9h 41m to 14h 38m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with March shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side


  1. February64°18°low 46°low 8°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  2. March67°19°low 48°low 9°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  3. April72°22°low 52°low 11°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.

Where Algiers sits, in March

Africa/Algiers

this place
typical high in March 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-March
7:01 AMsets 6:54 PM
Above the sea
20 mlow-lying
Latitude
36.8°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
our one place here

The land around Algiers, shaded by its typical high in March, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Algiers is our one place in Algeria so far. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), read 9 km south-east of Algiers. Its own grid square is mostly sea and holds only a daily average, so the page reads the nearest square with a true high and low near the town's height. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match.Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.