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Dunedin in March

okbusy · worth considering

The year in Dunedin

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  1. Dunedin in January: ok, busy
  2. Dunedin in February: sweet spot, busy
  3. Dunedin in March: ok, busy
  4. Dunedin in April: ok
  5. Dunedin in May: ok
  6. Dunedin in June: ok
  7. Dunedin in July: ok
  8. Dunedin in August: ok
  9. Dunedin in September: ok
  10. Dunedin in October: ok
  11. Dunedin in November: sweet spot
  12. Dunedin in December: ok, busy
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  • Busy
March at Dunedin is 17°C by day and 10°C at night, with 9 rainy days and about 9 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high17°C
Nightly low10°C
Feels like, afternoon16°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more9 · 75 mm
Humidity78%
Sunshine8.7 h/day
Daylight12.4 h/day
Crowds45 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the Octagon, the centre, 24 km from the airport (DUD): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

March: busy. Busiest from December to March; quietest in April, May, August, September and October.

Public holidays in March

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Dunedin in pictures

What to pack

  • Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 10°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 9 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 78%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type I plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the New zealand dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for New Zealand: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Dunedin: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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