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Omarama in March

Mild and damp, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

March in Omarama is mild: highs near 64°F, lows near 45°F. Rain falls on about three days a week, and the days shorten by 1 hour 28 minutes from the first week to the last.March in Omarama is mild: highs near 18°C, lows near 7°C. Rain falls on about three days a week, and the days shorten by 1 hour 28 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
64°F18°Caverage
Low
45°F7°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 38% of days
Daylight
12h 28mon average

Is March a good time to visit Omarama?

A good month, just outside Omarama's best months, which run from February.

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 64°F in March, against 40°F to 68°F through the year.Highs near 18°C in March, against 4°C to 20°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

38% of days in March, against 36% to 57% through the year.

Cloud cover

55% cover in March, against 53% to 62% through the year.

Daylight

12h 28m in March, against 8h 54m to 15h 29m 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. February68°20°low 48°low 9°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  2. March64°18°low 45°low 7°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. April58°14°low 41°low 5°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Omarama sits, in March

Pacific/Auckland
this place
typical high in March 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-March
7:37 AMsets 8:05 PM
Above the sea
740 mupland
Latitude
44.4°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Wānaka54 km south-west

The land around Omarama, 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 New Zealand in March

high · low · wet days
See March on the planning mapThe whole year in Omarama

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Omarama. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (740 m) against the climate model's (1,011 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (740 m) against the climate model's (1,011 m). 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.