Climate averages 1991–2020
Pengze weather
in March.
A mild, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Pengze: daytime highs average 15.4°C and nights cool to about 7.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 145 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes March a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 58 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jiujiang (57 km away). In March its highs average 15.7°C, about as warm as Pengze, with 157 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Pengze ranks joint 396th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 808th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Pengze is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.0°C to 21.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 145 mm to 188 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
Pengze climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.3°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 66 | 9.1 | 10.510 h |
| February | 11.0°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 90 | 10.4 | 11.111 h |
| March, selected | 15.4°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 145 | 13.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.4°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 188 | 13.4 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.9°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 228 | 12.8 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.5°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 337 | 15.4 | 14.014 h |
| July | 31.7°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 226 | 13.0 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.4°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 142 | 13.1 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.8°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 74 | 8.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.8°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 55 | 5.9 | 11.511 h |
| November | 16.8°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 58 | 7.1 | 10.711 h |
| December | 10.6°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 44 | 6.5 | 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
- Jiujiang in MarchChina · 57 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 8.0°C · 157 mm rain
- Huangmei in MarchChina · 60 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.5°C · 150 mm rain
- Anqing in MarchChina · 84 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 7.2°C · 133 mm rain
- Jingdezhen in MarchChina · 93 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 8.3°C · 209 mm rain
- Wuxue in MarchChina · 96 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 7.7°C · 142 mm rain
- Poyang in MarchChina · 101 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 9.1°C · 190 mm rain
- Chizhou in MarchChina · 123 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 6.9°C · 114 mm rain
- Qingquan in MarchChina · 138 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 7.2°C · 118 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 Pengze) is explained once on the Pengze year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.