Climate averages 1991–2020
Dazhong weather
in March.
A cool, moderately 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 Dazhong: daytime highs average 13.1°C and nights cool to about 4.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yancheng (33 km away). In March its highs average 13.8°C, 0.7°C warmer than Dazhong, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dazhong ranks joint 615th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 528th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Dazhong is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.0°C to 19.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 57 mm to 66 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
Dazhong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.7°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 38 | 5.7 | 10.210 h |
| February | 8.7°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 40 | 6.5 | 11.011 h |
| March, selected | 13.1°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 57 | 7.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.2°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 66 | 6.9 | 13.013 h |
| May | 24.3°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 91 | 8.1 | 13.914 h |
| June | 27.3°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 159 | 9.9 | 14.314 h |
| July | 30.3°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 236 | 15.5 | 14.114 h |
| August | 29.8°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 186 | 15.3 | 13.413 h |
| September | 26.0°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 94 | 8.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.3°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 50 | 6.0 | 11.411 h |
| November | 15.5°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 53 | 6.4 | 10.510 h |
| December | 9.1°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 32 | 5.2 | 10.010 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
- Yancheng in MarchChina · 33 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 3.5°C · 57 mm rain
- Dongtai in MarchChina · 41 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 3.6°C · 65 mm rain
- Xinghua in MarchChina · 65 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Hede in MarchChina · 66 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 3.7°C · 49 mm rain
- Jiangyan in MarchChina · 83 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.1°C · 71 mm rain
- Rugao in MarchChina · 93 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 4.3°C · 75 mm rain
- Taizhou (Jiangsu), China in MarchChina · 94 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 4.2°C · 72 mm rain
- Gaoyou in MarchChina · 105 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 5.9°C · 65 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 Dazhong) is explained once on the Dazhong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.