Climate averages 1991–2020

Nanchuan weather
in March.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.

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

Average high 16.2°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 8.7°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 85 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a mild month in Nanchuan: daytime highs average 16.2°C and nights cool to about 8.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 85 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 5th 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 Wansheng (27 km away). In March its highs average 17.6°C, 1.3°C warmer than Nanchuan, with 95 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanchuan ranks joint 298th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 645th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Nanchuan is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 5.0°C to 21.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 85 mm to 134 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

Nanchuan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Nanchuan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	9.3°C3.2°C	3.2°C	36	9.4	10.511 h
February	12.0°C5.3°C	5.3°C	43	10.2	11.111 h
March, selected	16.2°C8.7°C	8.7°C	85	15.0	12.012 h
April	21.2°C13.2°C	13.2°C	134	17.2	12.913 h
May	24.7°C16.8°C	16.8°C	191	18.2	13.614 h
June	27.4°C20.4°C	20.4°C	197	18.7	14.014 h
July	30.5°C22.9°C	22.9°C	188	17.6	13.814 h
August	30.4°C22.6°C	22.6°C	170	17.0	13.213 h
September	26.3°C19.1°C	19.1°C	123	13.7	12.412 h
October	20.5°C14.7°C	14.7°C	121	16.4	11.511 h
November	15.9°C9.9°C	9.9°C	80	12.5	10.711 h
December	10.7°C5.0°C	5.0°C	42	10.0	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

Distance from Nanchuan

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 Nanchuan) is explained once on the Nanchuan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.