Climate averages 1991–2020

Deqing weather
in March.

A mild, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 15.3°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 5.9°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 136 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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March is a mild month in Deqing: daytime highs average 15.3°C and nights cool to about 5.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 136 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes March a wet month (the 7th 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 Hangzhou (34 km away). In March its highs average 15.5°C, about as warm as Deqing, with 119 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Deqing ranks joint 408th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 796th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Deqing is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 5.9°C to 21.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 136 mm to 145 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. -505101520253035 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

Deqing climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Deqing, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 8.5°C0.6°C0.6°C9010.710.410 h
February 10.9°C2.3°C2.3°C8910.811.111 h
March, selected 15.3°C5.9°C5.9°C13613.712.012 h
April 21.2°C11.1°C11.1°C14512.412.913 h
May 25.8°C16.4°C16.4°C17112.513.714 h
June 28.3°C20.7°C20.7°C33316.514.114 h
July 32.6°C24.9°C24.9°C22615.513.914 h
August 32.0°C24.8°C24.8°C18416.313.313 h
September 27.6°C20.4°C20.4°C11411.012.412 h
October 22.8°C14.5°C14.5°C696.411.511 h
November 17.2°C8.5°C8.5°C738.810.611 h
December 11.0°C2.4°C2.4°C678.010.210 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 Deqing

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