Climate averages 1991–2020
Suzhou weather
in March.
A cool, 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 cool month in Suzhou: daytime highs average 14.5°C and nights cool to about 6.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 116 mm of rain on roughly 12 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 Songling (17 km away). In March its highs average 14.7°C, about as warm as Suzhou, with 93 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Suzhou ranks joint 499th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 739th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Suzhou is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.8°C to 20.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 116 mm to 119 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
Suzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.0°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 78 | 9.1 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 82 | 9.5 | 11.111 h |
| March, selected | 14.5°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 116 | 12.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.3°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 119 | 10.8 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 142 | 10.8 | 13.714 h |
| June | 27.9°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 275 | 14.0 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.6°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 171 | 13.1 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.3°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 160 | 14.3 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.3°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 95 | 9.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.5°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 62 | 6.6 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.7°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 67 | 8.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.3°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 55 | 6.9 | 10.210 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
- Songling in MarchChina · 17 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 6.2°C · 93 mm rain
- Kunshan in MarchChina · 35 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 5.6°C · 89 mm rain
- Changshu in MarchChina · 41 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 5.2°C · 83 mm rain
- Wuxi in MarchChina · 41 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 5.9°C · 103 mm rain
- Taicang in MarchChina · 50 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 5.7°C · 89 mm rain
- Qingpu in MarchChina · 52 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 5.8°C · 95 mm rain
- Xiayang in MarchChina · 52 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 5.9°C · 95 mm rain
- Jiading in MarchChina · 62 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.8°C · 90 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 Suzhou) is explained once on the Suzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.