Climate averages 1991–2020

Fenghuang weather
in March.

A cool, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 13.6°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 6.5°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 175 mm 19 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a cool month in Fenghuang: daytime highs average 13.6°C and nights cool to about 6.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 175 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes March a wet month (the 8th 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 Jishou (45 km away). In March its highs average 15.1°C, 1.4°C warmer than Fenghuang, with 187 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Fenghuang ranks joint 579th of 884 for the warmest March highs and 846th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Fenghuang is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 6.0°C to 19.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 175 mm to 231 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Fenghuang climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Fenghuang, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	6.7°C0.8°C	0.8°C	93	13.5	10.611 h
February	9.2°C2.9°C	2.9°C	115	14.7	11.211 h
March, selected	13.6°C6.5°C	6.5°C	175	18.5	12.012 h
April	19.6°C11.8°C	11.8°C	231	18.8	12.813 h
May	24.0°C16.4°C	16.4°C	277	18.7	13.514 h
June	27.0°C20.3°C	20.3°C	313	19.2	13.914 h
July	29.7°C23.0°C	23.0°C	239	17.2	13.714 h
August	29.7°C22.6°C	22.6°C	164	15.5	13.113 h
September	26.1°C18.7°C	18.7°C	106	10.8	12.312 h
October	20.2°C13.4°C	13.4°C	116	11.7	11.512 h
November	14.7°C7.9°C	7.9°C	92	11.3	10.811 h
December	9.1°C2.7°C	2.7°C	67	10.4	10.410 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 Fenghuang

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