Climate averages 1991–2020
Huangshi 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.
March is a mild month in Huangshi: daytime highs average 16.3°C and nights cool to about 8.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 130 mm of rain on roughly 13 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 Daye (21 km away). In March its highs average 16.4°C, about as warm as Huangshi, with 139 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Huangshi ranks joint 280th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 781st of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Huangshi is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.0°C to 22.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 130 mm to 173 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
Huangshi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.1°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 60 | 9.0 | 10.410 h |
| February | 11.8°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 82 | 10.0 | 11.111 h |
| March, selected | 16.3°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 130 | 13.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.3°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 173 | 12.9 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.6°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 189 | 13.0 | 13.714 h |
| June | 29.3°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 274 | 15.3 | 14.114 h |
| July | 32.3°C26.1°C | 26.1°C | 240 | 15.0 | 13.914 h |
| August | 32.0°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 138 | 13.4 | 13.213 h |
| September | 28.4°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 92 | 9.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.3°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 63 | 7.2 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.2°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 57 | 7.8 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.3°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 37 | 6.1 | 10.210 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
- Daye in MarchChina · 21 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 8.1°C · 139 mm rain
- E’zhou in MarchChina · 23 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 8.0°C · 113 mm rain
- Ezhou in MarchChina · 27 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 8.1°C · 112 mm rain
- Huanggang (Hubei), China in MarchChina · 28 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 7.7°C · 112 mm rain
- Qingquan in MarchChina · 30 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 7.2°C · 118 mm rain
- Wuxue in MarchChina · 66 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 7.7°C · 142 mm rain
- Xinzhou, China in MarchChina · 73 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 6.8°C · 105 mm rain
- Xianning in MarchChina · 83 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 7.7°C · 130 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 Huangshi) is explained once on the Huangshi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.