Climate averages 1991–2020

Coquitlam 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.

Average high 9.2°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 1.6°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 280 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Coquitlam · average highYear overview

March is a cool month in Coquitlam: daytime highs average 9.2°C and nights cool to about 1.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 280 mm of rain on roughly 20 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 Burnaby (13 km away). In March its highs average 8.9°C, about as warm as Coquitlam, with 252 mm of rain.

Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Coquitlam ranks joint 4th of 86 for the warmest March highs and 85th of 86 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 86 cities is 3.8°C; Coquitlam is 5.4°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 13.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 280 mm to 198 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 4000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Coquitlam climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Coquitlam, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 5.2°C0.2°C0.2°C34319.68.79 h
February 7.0°C0.3°C0.3°C21115.910.110 h
March, selected 9.2°C1.6°C1.6°C28019.911.912 h
April 13.0°C3.9°C3.9°C19817.413.714 h
May 17.4°C7.7°C7.7°C13413.215.315 h
June 19.6°C10.9°C10.9°C10812.516.216 h
July 23.1°C13.9°C13.9°C607.815.816 h
August 23.3°C14.4°C14.4°C848.114.414 h
September 20.0°C11.7°C11.7°C14211.212.713 h
October 13.9°C7.3°C7.3°C27116.810.811 h
November 8.2°C3.0°C3.0°C38020.39.29 h
December 4.8°C0.4°C0.4°C33019.58.38 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

Distance from Coquitlam

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Coquitlam) is explained once on the Coquitlam year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.