Climate averages 1991–2020
Burnaby weather
in March.
A cool, very wet month: the 8th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Burnaby: daytime highs average 8.9°C and nights cool to about 2.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 252 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 9th 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 New Westminster (7 km away). In March its highs average 9.2°C, about as warm as Burnaby, with 252 mm of rain.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Burnaby ranks joint 7th of 86 for the warmest March highs and joint 80th of 86 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 86 cities is 3.8°C; Burnaby is 5.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 12.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 252 mm to 175 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
Burnaby climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.4°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 316 | 19.0 | 8.79 h |
| February | 6.9°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 191 | 15.6 | 10.110 h |
| March, selected | 8.9°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 252 | 19.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.3°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 175 | 16.9 | 13.714 h |
| May | 16.4°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 117 | 12.5 | 15.315 h |
| June | 18.8°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 94 | 11.5 | 16.216 h |
| July | 22.2°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 53 | 6.6 | 15.816 h |
| August | 22.4°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 73 | 7.4 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.1°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 125 | 10.2 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.3°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 246 | 16.3 | 10.811 h |
| November | 8.1°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 349 | 19.9 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.0°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 307 | 19.4 | 8.38 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
- New Westminster in MarchCanada · 7 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 1.2°C · 252 mm rain
- North Vancouver in MarchCanada · 10 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 2.5°C · 252 mm rain
- Vancouver in MarchCanada · 12 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 2.7°C · 252 mm rain
- Coquitlam in MarchCanada · 13 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 1.6°C · 280 mm rain
- Surrey in MarchCanada · 20 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 1.5°C · 179 mm rain
- Delta in MarchCanada · 21 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 3.1°C · 156 mm rain
- Maple Ridge in MarchCanada · 26 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 0.8°C · 322 mm rain
- Langley in MarchCanada · 28 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 1.6°C · 179 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 Burnaby) is explained once on the Burnaby year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Vancouver, North Vancouver and New Westminster lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.