Ho chi minh city weather march

Daily high temperatures are around 34°C, rarely falling below 32°C or exceeding 36°C.

Daily low temperatures increase by 2°C, from 24°C to 26°C, rarely falling below 22°C or exceeding 27°C.

For reference, on 20 April, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Ho Chi Minh City typically range from 26°C to 34°C, while on 3 January, the coldest day of the year, they range from 22°C to 31°C.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on March. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

Average Hourly Temperature in March in Ho Chi Minh City

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The average hourly temperature, color coded into bands. The shaded overlays indicate night and civil twilight.

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Clouds

The month of March in Ho Chi Minh City experiences rapidly increasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy increasing from 53% to 68%.

The clearest day of the month is 1 March, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 47% of the time.

For reference, on 25 August, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 93%, while on 27 February, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 47%.

Precipitation

A wet day is one with at least 1 millimetre of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Ho Chi Minh City, the chance of a wet day over the course of March is increasing, starting the month at 3% and ending it at 8%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 61% on 28 September, and its lowest chance is 2% on 18 February.

Rainfall

To show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during March in Ho Chi Minh City is gradually increasing, starting the month at 6 millimetres, when it rarely exceeds 24 millimetres or falls below -0 millimetres, and ending the month at 17 millimetres, when it rarely exceeds 49 millimetres or falls below -0 millimetres.

Sun

Over the course of March in Ho Chi Minh City, the length of the day is gradually increasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day increases by 18 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 36 seconds, and weekly increase of 4 minutes, 11 seconds.

The shortest day of the month is 1 March, with 11 hours, 55 minutes of daylight and the longest day is 31 March, with 12 hours, 13 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the month in Ho Chi Minh City is 6:08 am on 1 March and the earliest sunrise is 17 minutes earlier at 5:51 am on 31 March.

The earliest sunset is 6:03 pm on 1 March and the latest sunset is 51 seconds later at 6:04 pm on 23 March.

Daylight saving time is not observed in Ho Chi Minh City during 2022.

For reference, on 21 June, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:32 am and sets 12 hours, 46 minutes later, at 6:18 pm, while on 21 December, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 6:06 am and sets 11 hours, 30 minutes later, at 5:36 pm.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

Solar Elevation and Azimuth in March in Ho Chi Minh City

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Solar elevation and azimuth over the course of March 2022. The black lines are lines of constant solar elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon, in degrees). The background color fills indicate the azimuth (the compass bearing) of the sun. The lightly tinted areas at the boundaries of the cardinal compass points indicate the implied intermediate directions (northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest).

Moon

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for March 2022. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

Humidity

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy in Ho Chi Minh City is increasing during March, rising from 90% to 98% over the course of the month.

For reference, on 22 May, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 100% of the time, while on 28 January, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 78% of the time.

Wind

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 metres above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed in Ho Chi Minh City is essentially constant during March, remaining within 0.5 kilometres per hour of 15.2 kilometres per hour throughout.

For reference, on 22 March, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 15.7 kilometres per hour, while on 25 October, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 9.0 kilometres per hour.

The highest daily average wind speed during March is 15.7 kilometres per hour on 22 March.

The hourly average wind direction in Ho Chi Minh City throughout March is predominantly from the east, with a peak proportion of 69% on 1 March.

Wind Direction in March in Ho Chi Minh City

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The percentage of hours in which the mean wind direction is from each of the four cardinal wind directions, excluding hours in which the mean wind speed is less than 1.6 km/h. The lightly tinted areas at the boundaries are the percentage of hours spent in the implied intermediate directions (northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest).

Water Temperature

Ho Chi Minh City is located near a large body of water (e.g., ocean, sea, or large lake). This section reports on the wide-area average surface temperature of that water.

The average surface water temperature in Ho Chi Minh City is gradually increasing during March, rising by 2°C, from 26°C to 28°C, over the course of the month.

Growing Season

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 0°C) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from 1 July until 30 June in the Southern Hemisphere).

Temperatures in Ho Chi Minh City are sufficiently warm year round that it is not entirely meaningful to discuss the growing season in these terms. We nevertheless include the chart below as an illustration of the distribution of temperatures experienced throughout the year.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 10°C and a cap of 30°C.

The average accumulated growing degree days in Ho Chi Minh City are very rapidly increasing during March, increasing by 526°C, from 984°C to 1,510°C, over the course of the month.

Growing Degree Days in March in Ho Chi Minh City

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The average growing degree days accumulated over the course of March, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands.

Solar Energy

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy in Ho Chi Minh City is essentially constant during March, remaining within 0.1 kWh of 6.5 kWh throughout.

The highest average daily incident shortwave solar energy during March is 6.6 kWh on 13 March.

Topography

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Ho Chi Minh City are 10.823 deg. latitude, 106.630 deg. longitude, and 7 m elevation.

The topography within 3 kilometres of Ho Chi Minh City is essentially flat, with a maximum elevation change of 21 metres and an average elevation above sea level of 6 metres. Within 16 kilometres is essentially flat (97 metres). Within 80 kilometres contains only modest variations in elevation (991 metres).

The area within 3 kilometres of Ho Chi Minh City is covered by cropland (66%) and grassland (14%), within 16 kilometres by cropland (53%) and shrubs (15%), and within 80 kilometres by cropland (50%) and trees (16%).

Data Sources

This report illustrates the typical weather in Ho Chi Minh City, based on a statistical analysis of historical hourly weather reports and model reconstructions from 1 January 1980 to 31 December 2016.

Temperature and Dew Point

There is only a single weather station, Tan Son Nhat International Airport, in our network suitable to be used as a proxy for the historical temperature and dew point records of Ho Chi Minh City.

At a distance of 2 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City, closer than our threshold of 150 kilometres, this station is deemed sufficiently nearby to be relied upon as our primary source for temperature and dew point records.

The station records are corrected for the elevation difference between the station and Ho Chi Minh City according to the International Standard Atmosphere , and by the relative change present in the MERRA-2 satellite-era reanalysis between the two locations.

Please note that the station records themselves may additionally have been back-filled using other nearby stations or the MERRA-2 reanalysis.

Other Data

All data relating to the Sun's position (e.g., sunrise and sunset) are computed using astronomical formulas from the book, Astronomical Algorithms 2nd Edition , by Jean Meeus.

All other weather data, including cloud cover, precipitation, wind speed and direction, and solar flux, come from NASA's MERRA-2 Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis . This reanalysis combines a variety of wide-area measurements in a state-of-the-art global meteorological model to reconstruct the hourly history of weather throughout the world on a 50-kilometer grid.

Land Use data comes from the Global Land Cover SHARE database , published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Elevation data comes from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) , published by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Names, locations, and time zones of places and some airports come from the GeoNames Geographical Database .

Time zones for airports and weather stations are provided by AskGeo.com .

Maps are © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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