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 high
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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