Climate averages 1991–2020

Leiyang weather
in March.

A mild, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 17.5°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 10.0°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 152 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a mild month in Leiyang: daytime highs average 17.5°C and nights cool to about 10.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 152 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 59 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Hengyang (59 km away). In March its highs average 17.0°C, about as warm as Leiyang, with 164 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Leiyang ranks joint 206th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 821st of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Leiyang is 3.1°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 6.1°C to 23.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 152 mm to 200 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Leiyang climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Leiyang, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	10.8°C4.1°C	4.1°C	69	11.7	10.711 h
February	13.7°C6.4°C	6.4°C	77	12.1	11.211 h
March, selected	17.5°C10.0°C	10.0°C	152	17.4	12.012 h
April	23.6°C15.5°C	15.5°C	200	17.2	12.813 h
May	27.5°C20.0°C	20.0°C	240	17.3	13.413 h
June	30.3°C23.7°C	23.7°C	251	17.5	13.814 h
July	33.7°C26.5°C	26.5°C	133	12.0	13.614 h
August	33.3°C26.0°C	26.0°C	139	14.3	13.113 h
September	29.6°C22.2°C	22.2°C	82	9.7	12.312 h
October	24.8°C16.9°C	16.9°C	66	7.7	11.612 h
November	18.9°C11.1°C	11.1°C	78	8.5	10.911 h
December	13.1°C5.8°C	5.8°C	53	7.8	10.511 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

Distance from Leiyang

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Leiyang) is explained once on the Leiyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.