Climate averages 1991–2020
Shangyu weather
in March.
A mild, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Shangyu: daytime highs average 15.7°C and nights cool to about 6.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 125 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes March a wet month (the 7th 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 Yuyao (27 km away). In March its highs average 14.8°C, 0.9°C cooler than Shangyu, with 118 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shangyu ranks joint 360th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 766th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Shangyu is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.9°C to 21.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 125 mm to 131 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
Shangyu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.1°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 82 | 10.3 | 10.410 h |
| February | 11.4°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 76 | 10.6 | 11.111 h |
| March, selected | 15.7°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 125 | 13.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.6°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 131 | 13.0 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.1°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 166 | 13.1 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.7°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 305 | 17.1 | 14.014 h |
| July | 33.3°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 172 | 13.8 | 13.914 h |
| August | 32.6°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 157 | 15.8 | 13.213 h |
| September | 28.0°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 116 | 12.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.2°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 67 | 6.9 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.8°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 69 | 8.6 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.5°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 63 | 7.7 | 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
- Yuyao in MarchChina · 27 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 6.6°C · 118 mm rain
- Shaoxing in MarchChina · 28 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 6.6°C · 128 mm rain
- Cixi in MarchChina · 40 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 6.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Haining in MarchChina · 61 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 7.1°C · 147 mm rain
- Xiaoshan in MarchChina · 61 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 6.8°C · 119 mm rain
- Fenghua in MarchChina · 65 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 6.6°C · 116 mm rain
- Ningbo in MarchChina · 67 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 6.6°C · 130 mm rain
- Zhuji in MarchChina · 69 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 6.7°C · 125 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 Shangyu) is explained once on the Shangyu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.