Climate averages 1991–2020
Qingdao weather
in March.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 9th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Qingdao: daytime highs average 8.3°C and nights cool to about 3.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 28 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jimo (37 km away). In March its highs average 11.2°C, 2.9°C warmer than Qingdao, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qingdao ranks joint 735th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 367th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Qingdao is 6.1°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.8°C to 13.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 28 mm to 44 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
Qingdao climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.5°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 13 | 2.8 | 10.010 h |
| February | 4.8°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 20 | 3.5 | 10.811 h |
| March, selected | 8.3°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 28 | 4.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.0°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 44 | 5.5 | 13.113 h |
| May | 18.0°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 71 | 5.9 | 14.114 h |
| June | 21.9°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 80 | 5.9 | 14.615 h |
| July | 25.9°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 158 | 10.5 | 14.414 h |
| August | 27.2°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 163 | 11.2 | 13.514 h |
| September | 24.3°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 85 | 6.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.2°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 44 | 5.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.5°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 39 | 5.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 6.0°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 20 | 3.6 | 9.810 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
- Jimo in MarchChina · 37 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 1.7°C · 22 mm rain
- Jiaozhou in MarchChina · 42 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 1.2°C · 23 mm rain
- Yinzhu in MarchChina · 42 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 2.5°C · 24 mm rain
- Nancun in MarchChina · 57 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 0.6°C · 21 mm rain
- Baicheng, China in MarchChina · 61 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 1.2°C · 24 mm rain
- Linjiacun in MarchChina · 66 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 1.3°C · 24 mm rain
- Gaomi in MarchChina · 67 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 1.0°C · 22 mm rain
- Jiangshan in MarchChina · 69 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 0.3°C · 21 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 Qingdao) is explained once on the Qingdao year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.