Climate averages 1991–2020
Liège weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Liège: daytime highs average 10.3°C and nights cool to about 2.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 51 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Maastricht (25 km away). In March its highs average 10.3°C, about as warm as Liège, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Belgium, Liège ranks joint 14th of 18 for the warmest March highs and 18th of 18 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 18 cities is 10.4°C; Liège is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 14.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 64 mm to 52 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Liège climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.6°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 70 | 13.0 | 8.59 h |
| February | 6.7°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 64 | 12.1 | 10.010 h |
| March, selected | 10.3°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 64 | 13.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.2°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 52 | 11.2 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.8°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 63 | 12.7 | 15.515 h |
| June | 20.7°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 74 | 12.7 | 16.416 h |
| July | 22.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 78 | 12.9 | 16.016 h |
| August | 22.6°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 79 | 12.3 | 14.515 h |
| September | 19.0°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 62 | 10.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.6°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 63 | 11.8 | 10.811 h |
| November | 9.6°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 67 | 12.6 | 9.09 h |
| December | 6.3°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 82 | 14.0 | 8.18 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
March in nearby cities
- Maastricht in MarchThe Netherlands · 25 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Hasselt in MarchBelgium · 37 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 2.9°C · 60 mm rain
- Aachen in MarchGermany · 40 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 2.3°C · 70 mm rain
- Heerlen in MarchThe Netherlands · 40 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 2.5°C · 56 mm rain
- Namur in MarchBelgium · 53 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 2.9°C · 61 mm rain
- Leuven in MarchBelgium · 67 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.9°C · 55 mm rain
- Düren in MarchGermany · 68 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 2.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Charleroi in MarchBelgium · 83 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 2.7°C · 60 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Liège) is explained once on the Liège year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.