Santa Cruz Weather in March
Average highs run from 31°C on March 1 to 28°C on March 31, and lows from 14°C to 13°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 9 mm over about 2 wet days.
March day by day
The normal high and low for each date, and the record, in °C.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Record high
- Record low
March at a glance
- Average high
- 30°C
- Average low
- 13°C
- Precipitation
- 9 mm
- Record high
- 34°CMar 2, 1981
- Record low
- 0°CMar 15, 1968
- Daylight
- 12 h 49 min to 11 h 44 min
- Cloud cover
- 28%
- Humidity
- 47%
- Dew point
- 6°C
- Wind
- 8.6 km/h
Every day of the month
A wet day has at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
| Date | Normal high | Normal low | Record high | Record low | Chance wet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1 | 31°C | 14°C | 33°C 1998 | 6°C 1991 | 4% |
| Mar 2 | 31°C | 14°C | 34°C 1981 | 5°C 1976 | 4% |
| Mar 3 | 31°C | 14°C | 34°C 1981 | 5°C 1974 | 3% |
| Mar 4 | 31°C | 14°C | 33°C 1958 | 7°C 1974 | 4% |
| Mar 5 | 31°C | 14°C | 33°C 2020 | 7°C 1995 | 4% |
| Mar 6 | 30°C | 14°C | 33°C 1997 | 6°C 1979 | 4% |
| Mar 7 | 30°C | 14°C | 32°C 1958 | 4°C 1979 | 4% |
| Mar 8 | 30°C | 14°C | 32°C 2020 | 6°C 1977 | 4% |
| Mar 9 | 30°C | 14°C | 31°C 2023 | 6°C 1976 | 4% |
| Mar 10 | 30°C | 14°C | 34°C 2015 | 6°C 1975 | 4% |
| Mar 11 | 30°C | 13°C | 34°C 2020 | 5°C 1996 | 4% |
| Mar 12 | 30°C | 13°C | 34°C 1997 | 1°C 1976 | 4% |
| Mar 13 | 30°C | 13°C | 34°C 1997 | 2°C 1976 | 4% |
| Mar 14 | 30°C | 13°C | 31°C 2020 | 2°C 1976 | 4% |
| Mar 15 | 30°C | 13°C | 30°C 1958 | 0°C 1968 | 4% |
| Mar 16 | 30°C | 13°C | 31°C 2016 | 2°C 1974 | 4% |
| Mar 17 | 30°C | 13°C | 33°C 2015 | 5°C 1974 | 4% |
| Mar 18 | 29°C | 13°C | 29°C 1993 | 4°C 1968 | 4% |
| Mar 19 | 29°C | 13°C | 33°C 2015 | 4°C 1968 | 4% |
| Mar 20 | 29°C | 13°C | 32°C 2015 | 2°C 1968 | 3% |
| Mar 21 | 29°C | 13°C | 32°C 2015 | 4°C 1966 | 3% |
| Mar 22 | 29°C | 13°C | 33°C 2015 | 3°C 1985 | 4% |
| Mar 23 | 29°C | 13°C | 32°C 2014 | 4°C 1967 | 4% |
| Mar 24 | 29°C | 13°C | 31°C 1993 | 4°C 2022 | 6% |
| Mar 25 | 29°C | 13°C | 30°C 1991 | 3°C 1968 | 6% |
| Mar 26 | 28°C | 13°C | 32°C 1976 | 2°C 1968 | 6% |
| Mar 27 | 28°C | 13°C | 30°C 2022 | 3°C 1990 | 6% |
| Mar 28 | 28°C | 13°C | 30°C 2015 | 4°C 1974 | 7% |
| Mar 29 | 28°C | 13°C | 30°C 1997 | 4°C 1975 | 7% |
| Mar 30 | 28°C | 13°C | 29°C 2021 | 2°C 1977 | 7% |
| Mar 31 | 28°C | 13°C | 29°C 1997 | 1°C 1958 | 8% |
Chance of rain
- Chance of a wet day
Sunrise and sunset
Times for 2026, local time (GMT-3).
- March 1
- sunrise 7:33 AM, sunset 8:22 PM
- March 31
- sunrise 7:57 AM, sunset 7:41 PM
Other months
Sources
Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station CI000085629, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-27. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.