Climate averages 1991–2020
Chongqing weather
in March.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Chongqing: daytime highs average 17.6°C and nights cool to about 10.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 72 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 4th 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 Huixing (15 km away). In March its highs average 16.5°C, 1.1°C cooler than Chongqing, with 75 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Chongqing ranks joint 202nd of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 589th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Chongqing is 3.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.9°C to 22.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 72 mm to 117 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
Chongqing climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 28 | 7.6 | 10.510 h |
| February | 13.3°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 33 | 8.8 | 11.111 h |
| March, selected | 17.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 72 | 13.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.5°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 117 | 15.0 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.8°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 163 | 16.1 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.5°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 173 | 15.6 | 14.014 h |
| July | 31.8°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 166 | 14.6 | 13.814 h |
| August | 32.1°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 147 | 14.2 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.5°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 118 | 12.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.5°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 107 | 16.3 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.0°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 72 | 11.6 | 10.711 h |
| December | 12.0°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 37 | 8.9 | 10.310 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
- Huixing in MarchChina · 15 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 9.0°C · 75 mm rain
- Banan in MarchChina · 20 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 10.7°C · 72 mm rain
- Luohuang in MarchChina · 27 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 10.7°C · 74 mm rain
- Beibei in MarchChina · 32 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 10.7°C · 75 mm rain
- Bishan in MarchChina · 32 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 10.6°C · 64 mm rain
- Qinggang in MarchChina · 33 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 10.6°C · 64 mm rain
- Jijiang in MarchChina · 42 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 10.9°C · 60 mm rain
- Degan in MarchChina · 44 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 11.1°C · 60 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 Chongqing) is explained once on the Chongqing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Banan lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.