Climate averages 1991–2020
Poyang weather
in March.
A mild, very 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 Poyang: daytime highs average 16.7°C and nights cool to about 9.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 190 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 8th 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 Jingdezhen (62 km away). In March its highs average 17.0°C, about as warm as Poyang, with 209 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Poyang ranks joint 243rd of 884 for the warmest March highs and 859th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Poyang is 2.4°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.8°C to 22.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 190 mm to 243 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
Poyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.1°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 74 | 10.4 | 10.511 h |
| February | 12.8°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 99 | 11.5 | 11.111 h |
| March, selected | 16.7°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 190 | 15.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.6°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 243 | 16.1 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.9°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 277 | 15.5 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 404 | 17.7 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.7°C26.8°C | 26.8°C | 231 | 13.2 | 13.814 h |
| August | 32.6°C26.4°C | 26.4°C | 154 | 13.8 | 13.213 h |
| September | 29.4°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 77 | 8.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 52 | 5.8 | 11.511 h |
| November | 18.4°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 83 | 7.9 | 10.711 h |
| December | 12.2°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 55 | 7.4 | 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
- Jingdezhen in MarchChina · 62 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 8.3°C · 209 mm rain
- Jinfeng in MarchChina · 84 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 9.5°C · 226 mm rain
- Nanchang in MarchChina · 86 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 8.7°C · 170 mm rain
- Yingtan in MarchChina · 90 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 9.2°C · 211 mm rain
- Huayuan in MarchChina · 95 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 9.2°C · 203 mm rain
- Pengze in MarchChina · 101 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 7.6°C · 145 mm rain
- Jiujiang in MarchChina · 102 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 8.0°C · 157 mm rain
- Fuzhou, China in MarchChina · 119 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 9.2°C · 207 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 Poyang) is explained once on the Poyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.