Climate averages 1991–2020
Jiujiang 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 Jiujiang: daytime highs average 15.7°C and nights cool to about 8.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 157 mm of rain on roughly 15 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 Wuxue (46 km away). In March its highs average 15.9°C, about as warm as Jiujiang, with 142 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jiujiang ranks joint 360th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 832nd of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Jiujiang is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.1°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 157 mm to 203 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
Jiujiang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.6°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 73 | 9.5 | 10.510 h |
| February | 11.3°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 101 | 11.1 | 11.111 h |
| March, selected | 15.7°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 157 | 14.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.8°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 203 | 14.6 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.3°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 237 | 14.2 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.9°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 344 | 16.9 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.2°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 243 | 15.4 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.8°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 167 | 16.1 | 13.213 h |
| September | 28.1°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 91 | 9.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.0°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 60 | 7.0 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.0°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 66 | 7.9 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.0°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 49 | 7.0 | 10.310 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
- Wuxue in MarchChina · 46 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 7.7°C · 142 mm rain
- Huangmei in MarchChina · 54 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.5°C · 150 mm rain
- Pengze in MarchChina · 57 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 7.6°C · 145 mm rain
- Poyang in MarchChina · 102 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 9.1°C · 190 mm rain
- Qingquan in MarchChina · 110 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 7.2°C · 118 mm rain
- Daye in MarchChina · 110 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 8.1°C · 139 mm rain
- Huangshi in MarchChina · 110 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 8.2°C · 130 mm rain
- Nanchang in MarchChina · 114 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 8.7°C · 170 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 Jiujiang) is explained once on the Jiujiang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.