Climate averages 1991–2020

Bashan weather
in March.

A mild, very wet month: the 9th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 17.3°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 9.1°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 193 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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March is a mild month in Bashan: daytime highs average 17.3°C and nights cool to about 9.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 193 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 59 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Fuzhou, China (35 km away). In March its highs average 17.4°C, about as warm as Bashan, with 207 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Bashan ranks joint 217th of 884 for the warmest March highs and 860th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Bashan is 3.0°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 6.0°C to 23.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 193 mm to 240 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. 0510152025303540 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 3500

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

Every month, side by side

Bashan climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Bashan, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 10.6°C3.4°C3.4°C7510.310.611 h
February 13.5°C5.5°C5.5°C8811.511.211 h
March, selected 17.3°C9.1°C9.1°C19317.412.012 h
April 23.3°C14.5°C14.5°C24017.412.813 h
May 27.4°C19.3°C19.3°C26917.013.514 h
June 29.8°C23.0°C23.0°C34318.413.914 h
July 33.5°C25.9°C25.9°C16913.913.714 h
August 32.9°C25.5°C25.5°C14415.113.113 h
September 29.3°C21.9°C21.9°C899.512.312 h
October 24.7°C16.5°C16.5°C596.711.512 h
November 18.8°C10.7°C10.7°C818.210.811 h
December 12.8°C4.9°C4.9°C587.110.410 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 Bashan

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 Bashan) is explained once on the Bashan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.