Climate averages 1991–2020
Kunming weather
in March.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 5th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Kunming: daytime highs average 21.5°C and nights cool to about 10.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 5th 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 Majie (8 km away). In March its highs average 21.8°C, about as warm as Kunming, with 41 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Kunming ranks 116th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 467th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Kunming is 7.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 24.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 41 mm to 69 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
Kunming climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.7°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 35 | 5.4 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.7°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 30 | 5.4 | 11.311 h |
| March, selected | 21.5°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 41 | 6.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 69 | 9.4 | 12.713 h |
| May | 24.6°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 139 | 15.0 | 13.313 h |
| June | 24.0°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 278 | 23.8 | 13.714 h |
| July | 23.5°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 274 | 26.6 | 13.514 h |
| August | 23.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 238 | 24.8 | 13.013 h |
| September | 22.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 165 | 20.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 19.5°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 113 | 16.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 16.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 34 | 6.3 | 10.911 h |
| December | 14.1°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 24 | 4.5 | 10.611 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
- Majie in MarchChina · 8 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 10.4°C · 41 mm rain
- Anning in MarchChina · 27 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 10.9°C · 29 mm rain
- Haikou, China in MarchChina · 32 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 11.3°C · 28 mm rain
- Longquan in MarchChina · 69 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 12.4°C · 22 mm rain
- Yuxi in MarchChina · 78 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 11.8°C · 30 mm rain
- Miyang in MarchChina · 102 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 12.1°C · 28 mm rain
- Qujing in MarchChina · 118 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 8.6°C · 56 mm rain
- Chuxiong in MarchChina · 118 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 10.4°C · 23 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 Kunming) is explained once on the Kunming year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Majie lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.