Climate averages 1991–2020
Sydney, Canada weather
in March.
A cold month with heavy precipitation: the 10th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cold month in Sydney, Canada: daytime highs average 1.3°C and nights cool to about -5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 108 mm of precipitation on roughly 12 days, which makes March a month with heavy precipitation (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 53 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dartmouth (311 km away). In March its highs average 3.0°C, 1.7°C warmer than Sydney, Canada, with 108 mm of rain.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Sydney, Canada ranks joint 73rd of 86 for the warmest March highs and joint 71st of 86 for the driest March (precipitation, lowest first). The mean March high of those 86 cities is 3.8°C; Sydney, Canada is 2.4°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 5.9°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 108 mm to 106 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
Sydney, Canada climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.7°C-6.9°C | -6.9°C | 118 | 12.9 | 9.19 h |
| February | -1.2°C-7.9°C | -7.9°C | 111 | 11.3 | 10.310 h |
| March, selected | 1.3°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 108 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 5.9°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 106 | 12.3 | 13.514 h |
| May | 11.5°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 86 | 11.7 | 14.915 h |
| June | 16.8°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 89 | 11.0 | 15.716 h |
| July | 21.5°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 85 | 10.5 | 15.415 h |
| August | 22.0°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 89 | 10.9 | 14.214 h |
| September | 18.5°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 104 | 10.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 12.6°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 131 | 12.3 | 11.011 h |
| November | 7.4°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 124 | 12.7 | 9.510 h |
| December | 2.6°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 139 | 14.2 | 8.79 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
- Dartmouth in MarchCanada · 311 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -4.0°C · 108 mm rain
- Halifax in MarchCanada · 313 kmHigh 2.5°C · Low -3.7°C · 108 mm rain
- Moncton in MarchCanada · 356 kmHigh 1.8°C · Low -6.9°C · 98 mm precipitation
- Saint John in MarchCanada · 466 kmHigh 1.9°C · Low -4.9°C · 112 mm precipitation
- St. John's in MarchCanada · 590 kmHigh 1.1°C · Low -4.3°C · 105 mm precipitation
- Québec in MarchCanada · 847 kmHigh 0.8°C · Low -8.2°C · 81 mm precipitation
- Montréal in MarchCanada · 1040 kmHigh 1.3°C · Low -8.0°C · 74 mm precipitation
- Ottawa in MarchCanada · 1204 kmHigh 2.5°C · Low -7.0°C · 73 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 Sydney) is explained once on the Sydney, Canada year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.