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Punta del Este in March

Warm and damp, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

March in Punta del Este is warm: highs near 77°F, lows near 66°F. Rain falls on about two days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 1 hour 3 minutes from the first week to the last.March in Punta del Este is warm: highs near 25°C, lows near 19°C. Rain falls on about two days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 1 hour 3 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
77°F25°Caverage
Low
66°F19°Caverage
Wet days
2a week · 33% of days
Daylight
12h 22mon average

Is March a good time to visit Punta del Este?

A good month, just outside Punta del Este's best months, which run from November to 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 77°F in March, against 59°F to 80°F through the year.Highs near 25°C in March, against 15°C to 27°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

33% of days in March, against 21% to 36% through the year.

Cloud cover

37% cover in March, against 33% to 55% through the year.

Daylight

12h 22m in March, against 9h 51m to 14h 28m 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. February80°27°low 68°low 20°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  2. March77°25°low 66°low 19°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  3. April72°22°low 61°low 16°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.

Where Punta del Este sits, in March

America/Montevideo
this place
typical high in March 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-March
6:39 AMsets 7:00 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
35.0°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Montevideo114 km west

The land around Punta del Este, 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 Uruguay in March

high · low · wet days
See March on the planning mapThe whole year in Punta del Este

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), read 8 km north-east of Punta del Este. 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.