Climate averages 1991–2020
Ordos weather
in March.
A cool, very 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 Ordos: daytime highs average 8.1°C and nights cool to about -3.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 14 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes March a very dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dongsheng (29 km away). In March its highs average 7.3°C, 0.7°C cooler than Ordos, with 15 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Ordos ranks joint 747th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 131st of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Ordos is 6.3°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 7.8°C to 15.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 14 mm to 23 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
Ordos climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -3.3°C-14.0°C | -14.0°C | 2.9 | 1.0 | 9.710 h |
| February | 1.3°C-9.7°C | -9.7°C | 5.3 | 1.6 | 10.711 h |
| March, selected | 8.1°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 14 | 3.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.9°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 23 | 3.9 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.0°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 33 | 4.5 | 14.314 h |
| June | 26.7°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 39 | 6.6 | 14.915 h |
| July | 28.1°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 97 | 9.9 | 14.715 h |
| August | 25.7°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 92 | 9.6 | 13.714 h |
| September | 20.6°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 61 | 7.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 13.6°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 27 | 4.9 | 11.211 h |
| November | 5.1°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 13 | 2.2 | 10.010 h |
| December | -2.0°C-11.3°C | -11.3°C | 3.1 | 1.0 | 9.49 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
- Dongsheng in MarchChina · 29 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -4.2°C · 15 mm rain
- Baotou in MarchChina · 116 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -5.0°C · 12 mm rain
- Salaqi in MarchChina · 121 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low -4.7°C · 16 mm rain
- Shiguai in MarchChina · 129 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low -6.0°C · 14 mm rain
- Yulinshi in MarchChina · 146 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low -1.5°C · 14 mm rain
- Hohhot in MarchChina · 208 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low -5.6°C · 15 mm rain
- Shuozhou in MarchChina · 229 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low -4.4°C · 17 mm rain
- Bayan Nur in MarchChina · 239 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low -3.7°C · 6.0 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 Ordos) is explained once on the Ordos year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.