Coolcation

Where it's cool in March

A coolcation, on this site, is anywhere with a mean daily high at or below 18°C. March gives you 80 of the 295 curated destinations with a ten-year record this month (of 497 curated in total). The ranking below is by low day-to-day swing, not by which is coldest.

March coolcation options on the ten-year record: 80 of 295 curated destinations with ten-year daily records sit at or below 18°C mean daily high (of 497 curated in total; the remainder do not yet have a full ten-year series for March). The list below ranks them by day-to-day steadiness, not raw temperature.

The coldest reading in the dataset for March is Iqaluit at -16°. The warmest still inside the cool band is Hangzhou at 18°. Pack layers, not a coat.

Coolcation is defined here as mean daily high at or below 18°C. That threshold is a firm number, chosen for room-temperature comfort with a light layer. Nothing on this page describes forecasts. The averages are climate.

Curated by Hugo · Updated July 2026
Almond blossom season on the terraces of northern Ibiza
Ibiza, Spain
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Empty caldera-edge paths above Fira before the season
Santorini, Greece
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Bryggen's wooden wharf houses under late-winter light
Bergen, Norway
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Displaying historical averages for the month of March.

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Top 10 destinations in March

  1. 1.Colca Canyon, Peru

    13°

    Averages 13° in March with swings barely 2° either side of 13° and 28 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  2. 2.Ibiza, Spain

    17°

    Averages 17° in March with swings barely 2° either side of 17° and 5 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  3. 3.La Paz, Bolivia

    14°

    Averages 14° in March with swings barely 2° either side of 14° and 14 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  4. 4.Santorini, Greece

    17°

    Averages 17° in March with a 6° day-to-day spread around 17° and 4 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  5. 5.Elba, Italy

    14°

    Averages 14° in March with a 6° day-to-day spread around 14° and 6 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  6. 6.Bergen, Norway

    7°

    Averages 7° in March with a 6° day-to-day spread around 7° and 16 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  7. 7.Lake Titicaca, Peru

    16°

    Averages 16° in March with a 6° day-to-day spread around 16° and 17 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  8. 8.Montserrat, Spain

    17°

    Averages 17° in March with a 7° day-to-day spread around 17° and 6 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  9. 9.Palermo, Italy

    16°

    Averages 16° in March with a 7° day-to-day spread around 16° and 7 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  10. 10.Goes, Netherlands

    10°

    Averages 10° in March with a 7° day-to-day spread around 10° and 9 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

Average temperatures by destination

Showing 80 of 80 destinations

DestinationCountryAvg highSwingsRain days
IqaluitCanada-16°--
ChurchillCanada-14°--
SvalbardSvalbard and Jan Mayen-12°--
LongyearbyenNorway-10°--
IlulissatGreenland-8°--
FairbanksUnited States-4°--
Kanas LakeChina-4°--
Abisko National ParkSweden-3°--
Lake BaikalRussia-3°--
NuukGreenland-3°--
AstanaKazakhstan-1°--
Valley of Geysers, KamchatkaRussia-1°--
High TatrasSlovakia0°--
QaqortoqGreenland0°--
TadoussacCanada0°--
AnchorageUnited States1°--
BamiyanAfghanistan1°--
Bran CastleRomania1°--
KazanRussia1°--
Kizhi IslandRussia1°--
Mount PaektuNorth Korea1°--
Quebec CityCanada1°--
TromsøNorway1°--
Yellowstone National ParkUnited States1°--
LehIndia2°--
JasperCanada4°--
MoscowRussia4°--
HarbinChina5°--
Jökulsárlón Glacier LagoonIceland5°--
Curonian SpitRussia6°--
Niagara FallsCanada6°--
SapporoJapan6°--
StockholmSweden6°--
VilniusLithuania6°--
VladivostokRussia6°--
WhistlerCanada6°--
AalborgDenmark7°--
BergenNorway7°--
KetchikanUnited States7°--
Lake Issyk-KulKyrgyzstan7°--
Mount ElbrusRussia7°--
Belovezhskaya Pushcha National ParkBelarus8°--
Charyn CanyonKazakhstan8°--
Chernobyl Exclusion ZoneUkraine8°--
Mount Everest North Base CampChina8°--
ŚwinoujściePoland8°--
Lake DistrictUnited Kingdom9°--
LvivUkraine9°--
Neuschwanstein CastleGermany9°--
Yosemite National ParkUnited States9°--
DresdenGermany10°--
DublinIreland10°--
GoesNetherlands10°--
OdesaUkraine10°--
SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina10°--
Danube DeltaRomania11°--
Jiuzhaigou ValleyChina11°--
AlmatyKazakhstan12°--
BakuAzerbaijan12°--
CappadociaTurkey12°--
L'AquilaItaly12°--
Mount FujiJapan12°--
PyongyangNorth Korea12°--
Rila MonasteryBulgaria12°--
SeattleUnited States12°--
TurinItaly12°--
UshuaiaArgentina12°--
ViennaAustria12°--
Colca CanyonPeru13°--
LhasaChina13°--
Mont Saint-MichelFrance13°--
SochiRussia13°--
BishkekKyrgyzstan14°--
ElbaItaly14°--
La PazBolivia14°--
MateraItaly14°--
PorečCroatia14°--
SafranboluTurkey14°--
BordeauxFrance15°--
Great Wall of China, MutianyuChina15°--

Readings come from the last ten years of daily weather data, so they reflect the climate as it is now, not as it was decades ago. Data: Visual Crossing global historical archive. How we compute this

Frequently asked

Where is reliably cool in March?
The driest 12-18°C cool-comfort picks in March, all with a wider day-to-day spread, are: Mogao Caves, Dunhuang (15°C, about 1 rain day, an 11° spread); Kashgar (16°C, about 1 rain day, a 12° spread); Great Wall of China, Mutianyu (15°C, about 2 rain days, a 13° spread); Santorini (17°C, about 4 rain days, a 6° spread).
What counts as a coolcation in March?
On this site, a coolcation is anywhere with a mean daily high at or below 18°C. In March that filters 80 of 295 curated destinations with a ten-year record. The warmest in-band pick is Hangzhou at 18°; the steadiest day-to-day is Colca Canyon with a 4° spread.
Is March the right month for a coolcation?
It depends on where you go. In March the ten-year record puts 80 curated destinations at or below 18°C mean daily high. If that count is small, the northern hemisphere is warming and southern-hemisphere hill stations or high-latitude coasts do most of the work. If it is large, the reverse.

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