Climate averages 1991–2020
Sandu weather
in March.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Sandu: daytime highs average 26.0°C and nights cool to about 20.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 31 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 01 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dacheng (36 km away). In March its highs average 29.3°C, 3.3°C warmer than Sandu, with 32 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Sandu ranks joint 14th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 387th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Sandu is 11.6°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 28.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 31 mm to 57 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
Sandu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21.8°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 32 | 6.7 | 11.111 h |
| February | 23.1°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 28 | 5.7 | 11.511 h |
| March, selected | 26.0°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 31 | 6.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 28.9°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 57 | 10.5 | 12.613 h |
| May | 30.8°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 108 | 16.6 | 13.113 h |
| June | 31.6°C27.3°C | 27.3°C | 142 | 14.3 | 13.313 h |
| July | 31.3°C27.2°C | 27.2°C | 191 | 15.6 | 13.213 h |
| August | 30.3°C26.7°C | 26.7°C | 276 | 20.5 | 12.813 h |
| September | 29.4°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 192 | 19.7 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.9°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 118 | 11.7 | 11.712 h |
| November | 25.7°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 45 | 6.1 | 11.211 h |
| December | 22.4°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 41 | 6.2 | 11.011 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
- Dacheng in MarchChina · 36 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 19.1°C · 32 mm rain
- Yaxing in MarchChina · 38 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 19.0°C · 27 mm rain
- Nada in MarchChina · 48 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 19.2°C · 32 mm rain
- Basuo in MarchChina · 96 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 20.9°C · 22 mm rain
- Wuzhishan in MarchChina · 116 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 19.4°C · 35 mm rain
- Xucheng in MarchChina · 116 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 19.7°C · 30 mm rain
- Haikou in MarchChina · 121 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 20.6°C · 35 mm rain
- Qiongshan in MarchChina · 122 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 20.5°C · 35 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 Sandu) is explained once on the Sandu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.