Climate averages 1991–2020
Burlington weather
in March.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cold month in Burlington: daytime highs average 4.2°C and nights cool to about -3.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 65 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 54 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Oakville (14 km away). In March its highs average 4.2°C, about as warm as Burlington, with 65 mm of rain.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Burlington ranks joint 27th of 86 for the warmest March highs and joint 37th of 86 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 86 cities is 3.8°C; Burlington is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.4°C to 10.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 65 mm to 89 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Burlington climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.0°C-7.7°C | -7.7°C | 70 | 10.9 | 9.49 h |
| February | -0.4°C-8.2°C | -8.2°C | 56 | 8.7 | 10.510 h |
| March, selected | 4.2°C-3.8°C | -3.8°C | 65 | 9.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 10.6°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 89 | 11.3 | 13.413 h |
| May | 17.4°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 81 | 10.9 | 14.715 h |
| June | 22.9°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 82 | 11.3 | 15.315 h |
| July | 25.9°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 74 | 10.1 | 15.115 h |
| August | 25.1°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 66 | 9.4 | 14.014 h |
| September | 21.3°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 75 | 9.1 | 12.513 h |
| October | 14.3°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 83 | 11.1 | 11.111 h |
| November | 7.4°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 77 | 10.2 | 9.710 h |
| December | 2.0°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 70 | 10.6 | 9.09 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Oakville in MarchCanada · 14 kmHigh 4.2°C · Low -3.6°C · 65 mm rain
- Milton in MarchCanada · 15 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low -4.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Hamilton in MarchCanada · 15 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low -3.4°C · 69 mm rain
- Stoney Creek in MarchCanada · 20 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -3.9°C · 69 mm rain
- Mississauga in MarchCanada · 26 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low -4.5°C · 65 mm rain
- Brampton in MarchCanada · 34 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low -5.3°C · 57 mm rain
- Etobicoke in MarchCanada · 36 kmHigh 3.9°C · Low -4.2°C · 57 mm rain
- Guelph in MarchCanada · 38 kmHigh 4.0°C · Low -5.7°C · 62 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 Burlington) is explained once on the Burlington year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Mississauga and Oakville lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.