Where to go in March

271 destinations genuinely in season, warmest first: typical daytime highs, budget level and the full travel window for each. Tap one for photos and details, or let the quiz pick for your whole group.

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The bars on each card are its daytime highs across the year, January to December, with March marked.

• Madurai India 37°C / 98°F $ Oct–Mar
• Bissau & the Bijagós Archipelago Guinea-Bissau 36°C / 96°F $ Dec–May
• Ningaloo Reef Australia 36°C / 98°F $$ Mar–Jul
• Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 35°C / 95°F $ Dec–Apr
• Kerala's backwaters India 35°C / 95°F $ Oct–Mar
• San Cristobal de las Casas Mexico 35°C / 96°F $ Oct–Apr
• Dakar & the Petite Côte Senegal 34°C / 93°F $ Nov–Apr
• El Salvador's Pacific coast El Salvador 34°C / 92°F $ Nov–Apr
• Hyderabad India 34°C / 93°F $ Oct–Mar
• Banjul & the Gambian coast Gambia 33°C / 91°F $ Nov–Apr
• Krabi & Bangkok Thailand 33°C / 92°F $ Nov–Mar
• Merida Mexico 33°C / 92°F $ Nov–Mar
• Nicaragua's volcanoes and colonial towns Nicaragua 33°C / 92°F $ Nov–Apr
• Bengaluru & Mysore India 32°C / 90°F $ Oct–Mar
• Cartagena Colombia 32°C / 90°F $ Dec–Mar
• Cartagena & the coffee region Colombia 32°C / 90°F $ Dec–Mar
• Diani Beach & the Kenyan coast Kenya 32°C / 90°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Langkawi Malaysia 32°C / 89°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Panama City & the canal Panama 32°C / 89°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Phuket Thailand 32°C / 90°F $ Nov–Apr
• Udaipur India 32°C / 89°F $$ Oct–Mar
• Varanasi India 32°C / 90°F $ Oct–Mar
• Accra & the Cape Coast Ghana 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Mar
• Agra India 31°C / 87°F $ Oct–Mar
• Douala & Mount Cameroon Cameroon 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Mar
• Freetown & the Sierra Leone coast Sierra Leone 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Apr
• Galle Sri Lanka 31°C / 88°F $ Dec–Mar
• Guadalajara Mexico 31°C / 87°F $ Oct–Apr
• Jaffna Sri Lanka 31°C / 87°F $ Jan–Sep
• Jeddah & the Red Sea coast Saudi Arabia 31°C / 88°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 31°C / 88°F $ Any month, driest Jun–Aug
• Lamu Kenya 31°C / 87°F $ Jul–Oct, Dec–Mar
• Lome Togo 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Mar
• Monrovia & the Liberian coast Liberia 31°C / 87°F $ Nov–Apr
• Pattaya & Rayong Thailand 31°C / 88°F $ Nov–Mar
• Rajasthan India 31°C / 88°F $ Nov–Mar
• Rio & Iguaçu Brazil 31°C / 89°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 31°C / 88°F $ Dec–Mar
• Suriname Suriname 31°C / 87°F $ Feb–Apr, Aug–Nov
• The Andaman Islands India 31°C / 88°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates 30°C / 86°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei 30°C / 85°F $$$ Feb–Apr
• Conakry & the Fouta Djallon Guinea 30°C / 86°F $ Nov–Mar
• Copán & western Honduras Honduras 30°C / 87°F $ Nov–Apr
• Costa Rica Costa Rica 30°C / 86°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Cotonou Benin 30°C / 87°F $ Nov–Mar
• Havana & the Cuban coast Cuba 30°C / 85°F $ Dec–Apr Advisory
• Muscat & the Wahiba Sands Oman 30°C / 85°F $$ Oct–Mar
• Penang Malaysia 30°C / 85°F $ Jan–Mar
• Raja Ampat Indonesia 30°C / 85°F $$$ Oct–Apr
• Singapore & Malaysia Singapore 30°C / 86°F $$ Any month
• The Marquesas Islands French Polynesia 30°C / 86°F $$$ Any month
• Trinidad Cuba 30°C / 86°F $ Nov–Apr Advisory
• Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 30°C / 86°F $$ Jan–May
• Vinales Cuba 30°C / 85°F $ Nov–Apr Advisory
• Aruba Aruba 29°C / 84°F $$$ Any month
• Aswan & Nubia Egypt 29°C / 84°F $ Oct–Apr
• Bora Bora & Moorea French Polynesia 29°C / 85°F $$$ Any month
• Cebu & the Visayas Philippines 29°C / 84°F $ Dec–May
• Curaçao Curaçao 29°C / 85°F $$ Any month
• Da Lat Vietnam 29°C / 84°F $ Dec–Mar
• Darjeeling India 29°C / 84°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Delhi & the Golden Triangle India 29°C / 84°F $ Oct–Mar
• Guadeloupe Guadeloupe 29°C / 84°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Guam Guam 29°C / 84°F $$ Dec–Jun
• Guayaquil & the Ecuadorian coast Ecuador 29°C / 85°F $ Dec–Apr
• Guyana Guyana 29°C / 85°F $ Feb–Apr, Aug–Nov
• Heron Island Australia 29°C / 84°F $$$ Oct–Mar
• Margaret River Australia 29°C / 85°F $$ Sep–Nov, Mar–May
• Martinique Martinique 29°C / 83°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Nha Trang Vietnam 29°C / 84°F $ Feb–Aug
• Palau Palau 29°C / 83°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• Palawan Philippines 29°C / 84°F $ Nov–May
• Perth & Margaret River Australia 29°C / 85°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Recife & Fernando de Noronha Brazil 29°C / 85°F $$ Sep–Mar
• Rottnest Island Australia 29°C / 85°F $$ Sep–Mar
• Sabah – Borneo's rainforest Malaysia 29°C / 85°F $ Mar–Oct
• Saipan Northern Mariana Islands 29°C / 84°F $$ Dec–Jun
• Salvador & the Bahia coast Brazil 29°C / 84°F $ Dec–Mar
• Santiago & the Chilean wine valleys Chile 29°C / 83°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Tegucigalpa Honduras 29°C / 85°F $ Nov–Apr
• The Maldives Maldives 29°C / 83°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• Valparaiso Chile 29°C / 83°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Victoria Falls Zambia 29°C / 85°F $$ Aug–Nov, or Feb–May for full flow
• Antigua & Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda 28°C / 82°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• Barbados Barbados 28°C / 82°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• Belize Belize 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Bocas del Toro Panama 28°C / 82°F $$ Feb–Apr
• Bonaire Bonaire 28°C / 83°F $$ Any month
• Cabo San Lucas Mexico 28°C / 82°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• Chuuk Lagoon Micronesia 28°C / 83°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Dubai & the desert United Arab Emirates 28°C / 83°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Grenada Grenada 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Jamaica Jamaica 28°C / 83°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Miami & South Beach United States 28°C / 82°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Nauru Nauru 28°C / 83°F $$ Any month
• Pohnpei Micronesia 28°C / 83°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Riyadh Saudi Arabia 28°C / 83°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 28°C / 83°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• San Juan & the Puerto Rican coast Puerto Rico 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–May
• Santo Domingo Dominican Republic 28°C / 82°F $ Dec–Apr
• St Lucia Saint Lucia 28°C / 83°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• The Cayman Islands Cayman Islands 28°C / 83°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• The Galápagos Ecuador 28°C / 83°F $$$ Any month
• The Marshall Islands Marshall Islands 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Tulum Mexico 28°C / 82°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• Yap Micronesia 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Yucatán & the Riviera Maya Mexico 28°C / 82°F $$ Dec–Apr
• AlUla Saudi Arabia 27°C / 81°F $$$ Oct–Mar
• Antigua & Tikal Guatemala 27°C / 80°F $ Nov–Apr
• Antigua Guatemala Guatemala 27°C / 80°F $ Nov–Apr
• Brisbane Australia 27°C / 80°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Byron Bay & the Gold Coast Australia 27°C / 80°F $$ Sep–Apr
• Da Nang & Hoi An Vietnam 27°C / 81°F $ Feb–Jul
• Doha Qatar 27°C / 81°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Dominica Dominica 27°C / 80°F $$ Dec–Jun
• Florianópolis Brazil 27°C / 81°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Hoi An Vietnam 27°C / 81°F $ Feb–Jul
• Kuwait City Kuwait 27°C / 80°F $$$ Nov–Mar Advisory
• Lake Atitlan Guatemala 27°C / 80°F $ Nov–Apr
• Lima & the Peruvian coast Peru 27°C / 80°F $ Dec–Apr
• Mexico City & Oaxaca Mexico 27°C / 81°F $ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Punta Cana Dominican Republic 27°C / 81°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Punta Cana & Samaná Dominican Republic 27°C / 81°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Roatán & the Bay Islands Honduras 27°C / 80°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis 27°C / 80°F $$ Dec–Apr
• The Drakensberg South Africa 27°C / 80°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• The Sunshine Coast Australia 27°C / 81°F $$ Sep–Apr
• Amritsar India 26°C / 79°F $ Nov–Mar
• Bahrain Bahrain 26°C / 78°F $$ Nov–Mar Advisory
• Buenos Aires & Mendoza Argentina 26°C / 79°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Cape Town & the Garden Route South Africa 26°C / 78°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Esperance Australia 26°C / 79°F $$ Oct–Mar
• Hanoi Vietnam 26°C / 79°F $ Oct–Dec, Mar–Apr
• Hawai‘i – Big Island & Maui United States 26°C / 78°F $$$ Any month
• Providenciales & Grace Bay Turks and Caicos 26°C / 78°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• Puebla Mexico 26°C / 79°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Puerto Vallarta Mexico 26°C / 79°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Rishikesh India 26°C / 79°F $ Sep–Nov, Feb–Apr
• Stellenbosch South Africa 26°C / 78°F $$ Sep–Apr
• Tampa United States 26°C / 79°F $$ Nov–Apr
• The Big Island of Hawai‘i United States 26°C / 78°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• The British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands 26°C / 78°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• The Exumas Bahamas 26°C / 79°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• The Hunter Valley Australia 26°C / 78°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• The US Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands 26°C / 78°F $$$ Dec–Apr
• Vietnam Vietnam 26°C / 79°F $ Mar–Apr, Sep–Nov
• Adelaide & Kangaroo Island Australia 25°C / 76°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Asmara Eritrea 25°C / 78°F $ Dec–Mar
• Cape Verde Cape Verde 25°C / 77°F $$ Nov–Jun
• Guangzhou China 25°C / 77°F $ Oct–Nov, Mar–Apr
• Honolulu & Waikiki United States 25°C / 77°F $$$ Nov–Apr
• Kangaroo Island Australia 25°C / 76°F $$ Oct–Nov, Mar–Apr
• Montevideo Uruguay 25°C / 76°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Montevideo & Punta del Este Uruguay 25°C / 76°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Shenzhen China 25°C / 76°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Sydney & the NSW coast Australia 25°C / 76°F $$$ Dec–Mar
• The Florida Keys United States 25°C / 76°F $$ Dec–Apr
• Aqaba & the Jordanian Red Sea Jordan 24°C / 76°F $$ Oct–Apr
• Iquique Chile 24°C / 75°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Johannesburg South Africa 24°C / 76°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Lalibela & the Ethiopian Highlands Ethiopia 24°C / 75°F $ Oct–Mar
• Lesotho Lesotho 24°C / 74°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Marrakech & the Atlas Morocco 24°C / 75°F $ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Mexico's Copper Canyon Mexico 24°C / 76°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Oct
• Phoenix & the Sonoran Desert United States 24°C / 74°F $$ Nov–Apr
• San Antonio & the River Walk United States 24°C / 75°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Sedona United States 24°C / 74°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Sharm El Sheikh & the Red Sea Egypt 24°C / 75°F $$ Oct–Apr
• Austin United States 23°C / 74°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Austin & the Hill Country United States 23°C / 74°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Canberra Australia 23°C / 73°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Easter Island Chile 23°C / 74°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Lord Howe Island Australia 23°C / 74°F $$$ Sep–May
• Macau Macau 23°C / 74°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Melbourne & the Great Ocean Road Australia 23°C / 74°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• New Orleans United States 23°C / 73°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Norfolk Island Norfolk Island 23°C / 73°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Palm Springs United States 23°C / 73°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Palm Springs & Joshua Tree United States 23°C / 73°F $$ Oct–Apr
• Phillip Island Australia 23°C / 74°F $$ Sep–Nov, Mar–May
• Pokhara Nepal 23°C / 74°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Siwa Oasis Egypt 23°C / 73°F $ Oct–Mar
• The Atacama Desert Chile 23°C / 74°F $$ Sep–Nov, Mar–May
• The Great Ocean Road Australia 23°C / 74°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• The Nile & the Red Sea Egypt 23°C / 73°F $$ Oct–Apr
• Baton Rouge United States 22°C / 72°F $ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Gran Canaria Spain 22°C / 71°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Houston United States 22°C / 72°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Lanzarote Spain 22°C / 72°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Nepal – the Himalaya Nepal 22°C / 72°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• New Zealand – North Island New Zealand 22°C / 72°F $$$ Dec–Mar
• Savannah & the Georgia coast United States 22°C / 72°F $ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Taipei Taiwan 22°C / 71°F $$ Oct–Dec, Feb–Apr
• Taipei & the Taiwanese coast Taiwan 22°C / 71°F $ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Alexandria Egypt 21°C / 69°F $ Oct–Apr
• Big Bend National Park United States 21°C / 71°F $ Oct–Apr
• Charleston & the Lowcountry United States 21°C / 70°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Dallas United States 21°C / 69°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• La Serena Chile 21°C / 71°F $$ Nov–Apr
• Manali India 21°C / 70°F $ Mar–Jun
• Medellin Colombia 21°C / 69°F $ Any month
• Pucon Chile 21°C / 71°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug for ski
• Seville Spain 21°C / 71°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Tenerife Spain 21°C / 70°F $$ Any month
• Xiamen China 21°C / 70°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Christchurch & Canterbury New Zealand 20°C / 68°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Death Valley United States 20°C / 67°F $$ Nov–Mar
• Jerusalem Israel 20°C / 68°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Las Vegas United States 20°C / 67°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Lijiang China 20°C / 68°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Nelson & the Abel Tasman New Zealand 20°C / 68°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Rotorua New Zealand 20°C / 69°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Shiraz Iran 20°C / 68°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov Advisory
• Tasmania Australia 20°C / 68°F $$$ Dec–Mar
• Tel Aviv & Jerusalem Israel 20°C / 68°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Atlanta United States 19°C / 65°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Oct
• Chengdu & the panda sanctuary China 19°C / 67°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Chongqing China 19°C / 66°F $ Oct–Nov, Mar–Apr
• Dunedin & the Otago Peninsula New Zealand 19°C / 66°F $ Nov–Mar
• Franz Josef Glacier New Zealand 19°C / 66°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• New Zealand – South Island New Zealand 19°C / 66°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jul for snow
• Wellington New Zealand 19°C / 65°F $$ Dec–Mar
• Bogotá & the Colombian Andes Colombia 18°C / 65°F $ Dec–Mar, Jul–Aug
• Isfahan Iran 18°C / 65°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov Advisory
• Madeira Portugal 18°C / 65°F $$ Any month
• The Salar de Uyuni Bolivia 18°C / 64°F $ Dec–Apr, for the mirror
• Wuhan China 18°C / 65°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Xi'an & the Terracotta Army China 18°C / 65°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Hangzhou China 17°C / 63°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Los Angeles United States 17°C / 63°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Petra & Wadi Rum Jordan 17°C / 63°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Puerto Montt & the Chilean Lake District Chile 17°C / 62°F $$ Dec–Mar
• San Diego & La Jolla United States 17°C / 63°F $$ Mar–Oct
• Suzhou China 16°C / 61°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• The Chatham Islands New Zealand 16°C / 61°F $$$ Dec–Mar
• Andorra & the Pyrenees Andorra 15°C / 58°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Bhutan Bhutan 15°C / 59°F $$$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Fukuoka Japan 15°C / 60°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Gyeongju South Korea 15°C / 58°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Jeonju South Korea 15°C / 59°F $ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• Shanghai China 15°C / 58°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Nov
• The Dolomites Italy 15°C / 59°F $$ Jul–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• Tokyo & Kyoto Japan 15°C / 59°F $$ Mar–Apr, Oct–Nov
• Kyoto Japan 14°C / 58°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Nagoya Japan 14°C / 58°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Osaka & the Kansai region Japan 14°C / 58°F $$ Mar–May, Oct–Nov
• Washington DC United States 14°C / 57°F $$ Mar–May, Sep–Oct
• Puerto Natales Chile 13°C / 55°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• The Falkland Islands Falkland Islands 13°C / 55°F $$$ Oct–Mar
• Innsbruck Austria 12°C / 53°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug
• Sofia & the Rila Mountains Bulgaria 12°C / 53°F $ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Sun Valley United States 12°C / 53°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Lake Tahoe United States 11°C / 51°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Ushuaia – the end of the world Argentina 11°C / 51°F $$$ Nov–Mar
• Zermatt & the Bernese Oberland Switzerland 11°C / 51°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Denver & the Front Range United States 10°C / 49°F $$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Park City & the Wasatch United States 10°C / 50°F $$$ Dec–Mar
• Telluride United States 10°C / 50°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• Whistler & the Sea to Sky Canada 9°C / 49°F $$$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Sep
• The High Tatras Slovakia 7°C / 45°F $ Jul–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• Stowe & the Green Mountains United States 5°C / 41°F $$ Sep–Oct, or Dec–Mar
• Aspen & the Colorado Rockies United States 4°C / 40°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Dec–Mar
• Banff & the Canadian Rockies Canada 4°C / 40°F $$$ Jun–Sep, or Jan–Mar
• Calgary Canada 4°C / 40°F $$ Jun–Aug, or Dec–Mar
• Mammoth Lakes & the Eastern Sierra United States 3°C / 38°F $$ Dec–Apr, or Jun–Sep
• The Lofoten Islands Norway 0°C / 32°F $$$ Jun–Aug, or Jan–Mar for aurora
• The Yukon & the northern lights Canada -2°C / 29°F $$ Sep–Mar
• Swedish Lapland Sweden -4°C / 26°F $$ Dec–Mar, or Jun–Aug
• Svalbard Norway -11°C / 11°F $$$ Feb–Apr, or Jun–Aug
• Iqaluit & Baffin Island Canada -16°C / 3°F $$$ Jul–Aug, or Feb–Mar