March is the hinge of the UAE year. Highs move from the high twenties at the start into the middle thirties by the end, the sea warms to the point where it stops being refreshing, and the last genuinely pleasant afternoons of March 2029 are spent in the knowledge that they are the last of them until October.
March closes the first quarter of 2029 on the 31st, the first reporting boundary of the year for companies filing on the Gregorian calendar. It also closes the last quarter in which outdoor work runs on ordinary hours: from April onwards construction and outdoor labour begin shifting towards the early morning, ahead of the midday break rule that starts in June.
March 2029 runs to 31 days and closes the first quarter of a year of 365. Nine months remain, five of them summer, and the next public holiday fixed to a date rather than to the moon is not until 2 December, at the far end of the calendar.