Climate averages 1991–2020
Guangyuan weather
in March.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Guangyuan: daytime highs average 15.9°C and nights cool to about 7.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 43 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 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 Donghe (51 km away). In March its highs average 16.2°C, about as warm as Guangyuan, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Guangyuan ranks joint 337th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 478th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Guangyuan is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.4°C to 21.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 43 mm to 65 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
Guangyuan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.8°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 20 | 5.7 | 10.310 h |
| February | 11.4°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 27 | 6.9 | 11.011 h |
| March, selected | 15.9°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 43 | 9.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.3°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 65 | 10.1 | 13.013 h |
| May | 25.2°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 96 | 11.6 | 13.814 h |
| June | 28.1°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 139 | 13.1 | 14.214 h |
| July | 29.4°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 259 | 20.5 | 14.114 h |
| August | 29.0°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 186 | 18.1 | 13.313 h |
| September | 24.2°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 193 | 16.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.4°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 97 | 13.9 | 11.411 h |
| November | 14.7°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 48 | 8.0 | 10.511 h |
| December | 9.8°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 19 | 5.3 | 10.110 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
- Donghe in MarchChina · 51 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 7.6°C · 54 mm rain
- Bazhong in MarchChina · 108 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 7.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Mianyang, China in MarchChina · 114 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Pingwu County in MarchChina · 122 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 6.2°C · 53 mm rain
- Jiangyou in MarchChina · 128 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 7.8°C · 27 mm rain
- Hanzhong in MarchChina · 132 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.0°C · 55 mm rain
- Longnan (approximate) in MarchChina · 136 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 5.2°C · 39 mm rain
- Mianyang in MarchChina · 153 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 8.1°C · 22 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 Guangyuan) is explained once on the Guangyuan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.