Climate averages 1991–2020
Guangzhou weather
in March.
A warm, 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 warm month in Guangzhou: daytime highs average 23.2°C and nights cool to about 15.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 117 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes March a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 00 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Foshan (16 km away). In March its highs average 23.3°C, about as warm as Guangzhou, with 117 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Guangzhou ranks joint 65th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 743rd of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Guangzhou is 8.8°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 26.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 117 mm to 197 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
Guangzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.6°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 41 | 6.4 | 10.911 h |
| February | 20.2°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 55 | 8.9 | 11.411 h |
| March, selected | 23.2°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 117 | 14.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.8°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 197 | 16.5 | 12.713 h |
| May | 29.3°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 290 | 21.0 | 13.213 h |
| June | 30.8°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 336 | 22.7 | 13.514 h |
| July | 31.7°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 229 | 21.8 | 13.413 h |
| August | 31.6°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 264 | 22.1 | 12.913 h |
| September | 30.5°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 177 | 15.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 28.3°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 58 | 6.4 | 11.612 h |
| November | 24.6°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 35 | 5.3 | 11.011 h |
| December | 20.0°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 37 | 4.7 | 10.711 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
- Foshan in MarchChina · 16 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 16.0°C · 117 mm rain
- Dasha in MarchChina · 20 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.9°C · 119 mm rain
- Shiqiao in MarchChina · 22 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 16.2°C · 117 mm rain
- Daliang in MarchChina · 31 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 16.4°C · 97 mm rain
- Sanshui in MarchChina · 37 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 15.5°C · 136 mm rain
- Nantou, China in MarchChina · 44 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 16.5°C · 97 mm rain
- Shaping in MarchChina · 49 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 16.1°C · 98 mm rain
- Dongguan in MarchChina · 52 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 16.2°C · 107 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 Guangzhou) is explained once on the Guangzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Foshan and Shiqiao lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.