Climate averages 1991–2020
Victoria weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Victoria: daytime highs average 8.8°C and nights cool to about 4.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 89 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 52 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bellingham (73 km away). In March its highs average 9.8°C, 1.0°C warmer than Victoria, with 171 mm of rain.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Victoria ranks joint 10th of 86 for the warmest March highs and 68th of 86 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 86 cities is 3.8°C; Victoria is 5.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 11.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 89 mm to 53 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
Victoria climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.4°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 146 | 16.6 | 8.89 h |
| February | 7.2°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 86 | 12.4 | 10.210 h |
| March, selected | 8.8°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 89 | 13.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 11.2°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 53 | 10.1 | 13.614 h |
| May | 14.5°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 38 | 7.0 | 15.215 h |
| June | 16.8°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 27 | 5.7 | 16.016 h |
| July | 19.8°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 14 | 3.1 | 15.716 h |
| August | 20.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 22 | 3.2 | 14.314 h |
| September | 17.4°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 39 | 6.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 12.6°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 103 | 11.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.6°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 153 | 16.3 | 9.39 h |
| December | 6.2°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 138 | 16.2 | 8.48 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
- Bellingham in MarchUnited States · 73 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 2.6°C · 171 mm rain
- Delta in MarchCanada · 76 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 3.1°C · 156 mm rain
- Surrey in MarchCanada · 84 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 1.5°C · 179 mm rain
- Langley in MarchCanada · 90 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 1.6°C · 179 mm rain
- New Westminster in MarchCanada · 92 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 1.2°C · 252 mm rain
- Nanaimo in MarchCanada · 92 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.5°C · 178 mm rain
- Vancouver in MarchCanada · 92 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 2.7°C · 252 mm rain
- Burnaby in MarchCanada · 97 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 2.1°C · 252 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 Victoria) is explained once on the Victoria year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.