Climate averages 1991–2020
Chongming weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Chongming: daytime highs average 12.2°C and nights cool to about 6.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 105 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 58 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Huilong (22 km away). In March its highs average 12.1°C, about as warm as Chongming, with 97 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Chongming ranks joint 654th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 712th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Chongming is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.1°C to 17.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 105 mm to 106 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
Chongming climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.4°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 67 | 8.8 | 10.310 h |
| February | 8.6°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 69 | 8.9 | 11.011 h |
| March, selected | 12.2°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 105 | 11.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 17.2°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 106 | 10.5 | 12.913 h |
| May | 22.2°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 122 | 9.6 | 13.714 h |
| June | 25.4°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 255 | 13.3 | 14.214 h |
| July | 29.4°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 153 | 12.4 | 14.014 h |
| August | 29.4°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 153 | 13.5 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.0°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 111 | 10.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.4°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 65 | 6.1 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.2°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 66 | 7.8 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.1°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 51 | 6.8 | 10.110 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
- Huilong in MarchChina · 22 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 6.4°C · 97 mm rain
- Chengqiao in MarchChina · 29 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 6.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Baoshan in MarchChina · 30 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 6.1°C · 91 mm rain
- Yanghang in MarchChina · 37 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 6.1°C · 96 mm rain
- Luodian in MarchChina · 41 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 6.0°C · 90 mm rain
- Yangpu in MarchChina · 43 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 6.2°C · 96 mm rain
- Shanghai in MarchChina · 50 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 6.1°C · 96 mm rain
- Jiading in MarchChina · 50 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.8°C · 90 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 Chongming) is explained once on the Chongming year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.