Climate averages 1991–2020
Linxia Chengguanzhen weather
in March.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Linxia Chengguanzhen: daytime highs average 9.0°C and nights cool to about -4.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 22 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 5th 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 Lanzhou (76 km away). In March its highs average 12.8°C, 3.8°C warmer than Linxia Chengguanzhen, with 13 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Linxia Chengguanzhen ranks joint 718th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 279th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Linxia Chengguanzhen is 5.4°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.6°C to 15.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 22 mm to 33 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Linxia Chengguanzhen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.1°C-11.3°C | -11.3°C | 7.5 | 2.8 | 10.010 h |
| February | 2.9°C-9.4°C | -9.4°C | 12 | 3.5 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 9.0°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 22 | 5.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.6°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 33 | 7.2 | 13.113 h |
| May | 19.5°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 64 | 10.5 | 14.014 h |
| June | 22.9°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 74 | 10.8 | 14.515 h |
| July | 24.7°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 104 | 13.6 | 14.314 h |
| August | 23.5°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 122 | 14.2 | 13.514 h |
| September | 18.8°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 104 | 14.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 13.4°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 65 | 13.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 7.3°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 15 | 4.3 | 10.310 h |
| December | 1.8°C-8.7°C | -8.7°C | 4.1 | 1.2 | 9.810 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Lanzhou in MarchChina · 76 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 0.0°C · 13 mm rain
- Tongren (Qinghai), China in MarchChina · 108 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low -6.9°C · 34 mm rain
- Nianbo in MarchChina · 121 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low -2.9°C · 20 mm rain
- Dingxi in MarchChina · 128 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low -3.1°C · 21 mm rain
- Baiyin in MarchChina · 136 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low -1.1°C · 9.5 mm rain
- Xining in MarchChina · 173 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low -3.4°C · 15 mm rain
- Luomen in MarchChina · 190 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 0.4°C · 28 mm rain
- Pan’an in MarchChina · 197 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 0.7°C · 28 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 Linxia Chengguanzhen) is explained once on the Linxia Chengguanzhen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.