Climate averages 1991–2020
Jincheng weather
in March.
A cool, fairly dry 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 cool month in Jincheng: daytime highs average 13.1°C and nights cool to about 1.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 19 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jiaozuo (47 km away). In March its highs average 16.3°C, 3.3°C warmer than Jincheng, with 20 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jincheng ranks joint 615th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 205th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Jincheng is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.4°C to 19.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 19 mm to 37 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
Jincheng climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.2°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 8.3 | 2.4 | 10.010 h |
| February | 7.3°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 12 | 2.8 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 13.1°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 19 | 4.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.5°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 37 | 5.6 | 13.113 h |
| May | 24.4°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 48 | 6.2 | 14.014 h |
| June | 28.2°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 63 | 7.9 | 14.515 h |
| July | 28.5°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 148 | 14.9 | 14.314 h |
| August | 26.9°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 118 | 13.6 | 13.513 h |
| September | 23.1°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 74 | 8.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 18.1°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 39 | 5.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 11.4°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 23 | 4.5 | 10.310 h |
| December | 5.5°C-4.0°C | -4.0°C | 7.4 | 2.0 | 9.810 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
- Jiaozuo in MarchChina · 47 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 3.1°C · 20 mm rain
- Jiyuan in MarchChina · 51 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 3.2°C · 23 mm rain
- Changzhi (Shanxi, 36.18°N 113.11°E), China in MarchChina · 80 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low -1.5°C · 17 mm rain
- Xinxiang in MarchChina · 94 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 3.5°C · 17 mm rain
- Luoyang in MarchChina · 99 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 3.6°C · 23 mm rain
- Changzhi (Shanxi, 35.21°N 111.74°E), China in MarchChina · 104 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 3.7°C · 22 mm rain
- Zhengzhou in MarchChina · 111 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 4.4°C · 25 mm rain
- Yima in MarchChina · 121 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 2.5°C · 25 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 Jincheng) is explained once on the Jincheng year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.