Climate averages 1991–2020
Gantang weather
in March.
A mild, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Gantang: daytime highs average 16.0°C and nights cool to about 8.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 147 mm of rain on roughly 17 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 Yongfeng (19 km away). In March its highs average 16.3°C, about as warm as Gantang, with 157 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Gantang ranks joint 328th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 812th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Gantang is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.2°C to 22.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 147 mm to 195 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
Gantang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 61 | 10.5 | 10.611 h |
| February | 11.9°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 77 | 12.3 | 11.211 h |
| March, selected | 16.0°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 147 | 17.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.2°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 195 | 17.6 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.4°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 249 | 17.2 | 13.513 h |
| June | 29.2°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 301 | 18.3 | 13.814 h |
| July | 32.5°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 191 | 14.1 | 13.714 h |
| August | 32.0°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 140 | 14.9 | 13.113 h |
| September | 28.2°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 84 | 10.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.2°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 71 | 8.3 | 11.512 h |
| November | 17.3°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 70 | 9.2 | 10.811 h |
| December | 11.6°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 48 | 7.9 | 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
- Yongfeng in MarchChina · 19 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 8.8°C · 157 mm rain
- Loudi in MarchChina · 33 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 8.1°C · 155 mm rain
- Shaoyang in MarchChina · 55 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 8.5°C · 132 mm rain
- Lengshuijiang in MarchChina · 60 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 8.3°C · 140 mm rain
- Xiangxiang in MarchChina · 64 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 8.9°C · 177 mm rain
- Shangmei in MarchChina · 75 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 8.4°C · 138 mm rain
- Shaoshan in MarchChina · 76 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 8.3°C · 157 mm rain
- Hengyang in MarchChina · 88 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 9.5°C · 164 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 Gantang) is explained once on the Gantang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.