Climate averages 1991–2020
Shuozhou weather
in March.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Shuozhou: daytime highs average 8.9°C and nights cool to about -4.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 17 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yuanping (73 km away). In March its highs average 11.1°C, 2.2°C warmer than Shuozhou, with 15 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shuozhou ranks joint 720th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 172nd of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Shuozhou is 5.5°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 7.2°C to 16.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 17 mm to 32 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Shuozhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -2.3°C-14.2°C | -14.2°C | 2.9 | 1.0 | 9.710 h |
| February | 2.4°C-9.6°C | -9.6°C | 6.6 | 2.0 | 10.711 h |
| March, selected | 8.9°C-4.4°C | -4.4°C | 17 | 4.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.0°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 32 | 5.6 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.0°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 42 | 6.4 | 14.314 h |
| June | 26.2°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 71 | 10.2 | 14.915 h |
| July | 27.2°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 121 | 11.9 | 14.615 h |
| August | 25.3°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 130 | 11.5 | 13.714 h |
| September | 20.7°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 78 | 9.5 | 12.512 h |
| October | 14.3°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 38 | 6.6 | 11.211 h |
| November | 5.7°C-5.2°C | -5.2°C | 15 | 3.4 | 10.110 h |
| December | -1.2°C-11.8°C | -11.8°C | 3.3 | 1.2 | 9.59 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Yuanping in MarchChina · 73 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low -2.1°C · 15 mm rain
- Xinzhou in MarchChina · 104 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low -1.7°C · 15 mm rain
- Datong in MarchChina · 114 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -4.9°C · 14 mm rain
- Beichengqu in MarchChina · 140 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low -5.2°C · 15 mm rain
- Taiyuan in MarchChina · 161 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low -0.5°C · 16 mm rain
- Hohhot in MarchChina · 179 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low -5.6°C · 15 mm rain
- Jinzhong in MarchChina · 184 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low -1.1°C · 15 mm rain
- Yangquan in MarchChina · 190 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low -1.3°C · 18 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 Shuozhou) is explained once on the Shuozhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.