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Malé in March

Warm and damp, as the days hold steady.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

March in Malé is warm, around 82°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about two days a week, and daylight holds at about 12 hours 5 minutes.March in Malé is warm, around 28°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about two days a week, and daylight holds at about 12 hours 5 minutes.

Typical
82°F28°Caverage
Wet days
2a week · 34% of days
Daylight
12h 05mon average

Is March a good time to visit Malé?

Yes. March is one of Malé's best months (January to March).

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

Around 82°F in March, against 80°F to 82°F through the year.Around 28°C in March, against 27°C to 28°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

34% of days in March, against 34% to 81% through the year.

Cloud cover

62% cover in March, against 62% to 77% through the year.

Daylight

12h 05m in March, against 11h 53m to 12h 22m 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. February81°27°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  2. March82°28°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  3. April82°28°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.

Where Malé sits, in March

Indian/Maldives
this place
typical high in March 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-March
6:13 AMsets 6:18 PM
Above the sea
0 mlow-lying
Latitude
4.2°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Helengeli50 km north

The land around Malé, 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. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Maldives in March

typical · wet days
See March on the planning mapThe whole year in Malé

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Malé sits on a grid square that is mostly sea, where the data hold only a daily average, so the page shows one typical temperature, not a high and a low. 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.