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Sanya in March

sweet spot · the best month to go

The year in Sanya

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  1. Sanya in January: sweet spot
  2. Sanya in February: sweet spot
  3. Sanya in March: sweet spot
  4. Sanya in April: sweet spot
  5. Sanya in May: good
  6. Sanya in June: ok
  7. Sanya in July: ok
  8. Sanya in August: ok, busy
  9. Sanya in September: avoid
  10. Sanya in October: ok, busy
  11. Sanya in November: good, busy
  12. Sanya in December: good, busy
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March at Sanya is 27°C by day and 22°C at night, with 1 rainy day and about 11 hours of sun a day. 27C max, 1 rainy day.

The numbers

Daily high27°C
Nightly low22°C
Feels like, afternoon31°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more1 · 20 mm
Humidity81%
Sunshine10.7 h/day
Daylight12.0 h/day
Beach and sea30 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 24 °C, warm good
Crowds100 / 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 Yalong Bay (or Sanya Bay), 11 km from the airport (SYX): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

March: quieter than usual. Busiest in August, November and December; quietest in February, May and June.

Sanya in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 27°C.
  • Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 81%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

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

Before you go

Type A and C and I plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Renminbi. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for China: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

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

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