Climate averages 1991–2020
Artux weather
in March.
A cool, very dry 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 Artux: daytime highs average 13.5°C and nights cool to about 0.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 11 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes March a very dry month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kashgar (32 km away). In March its highs average 14.0°C, 0.5°C warmer than Artux, with 13 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Artux ranks joint 584th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 87th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Artux is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 8.3°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 11 mm to 7.7 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
Artux climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.6°C-8.3°C | -8.3°C | 3.1 | 1.0 | 9.710 h |
| February | 4.6°C-5.4°C | -5.4°C | 7.9 | 1.9 | 10.711 h |
| March, selected | 13.5°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 11 | 2.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.8°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 7.7 | 1.8 | 13.213 h |
| May | 26.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 16 | 2.4 | 14.314 h |
| June | 30.9°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 8.6 | 1.9 | 14.915 h |
| July | 32.9°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 8.2 | 1.3 | 14.715 h |
| August | 30.9°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 14 | 2.2 | 13.714 h |
| September | 26.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 17 | 2.8 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.5°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 8.5 | 1.7 | 11.211 h |
| November | 9.4°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 4.5 | 1.1 | 10.010 h |
| December | 1.1°C-6.0°C | -6.0°C | 3.9 | 1.1 | 9.49 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
- Kashgar in MarchChina · 32 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 0.9°C · 13 mm rain
- Shache in MarchChina · 170 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 1.3°C · 4.0 mm rain
- Tumxuk in MarchChina · 247 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 2.3°C · 2.9 mm rain
- Osh in MarchKyrgyzstan · 302 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 0.2°C · 85 mm rain
- Andijon in MarchUzbekistan · 346 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 3.1°C · 46 mm rain
- Karakol in MarchKyrgyzstan · 361 kmHigh 3.2°C · Low -7.2°C · 37 mm rain
- Quvasoy in MarchUzbekistan · 364 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.5°C · 85 mm rain
- Shahrixon in MarchUzbekistan · 367 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 4.1°C · 40 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 Artux) is explained once on the Artux year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.