Climate averages 1991–2020

Tanggu weather
in March.

A cool, very dry month: the 8th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 11.4°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 1.5°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 11 mm 2 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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March is a cool month in Tanggu: daytime highs average 11.4°C and nights cool to about 1.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 11 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes March a very dry month (the 4th 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 Xianshuigu (23 km away). In March its highs average 12.5°C, 1.1°C warmer than Tanggu, with 9.8 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Tanggu ranks joint 675th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 87th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Tanggu is 2.9°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 7.5°C to 19.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 11 mm to 31 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Tanggu climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Tanggu, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 1.6°C-5.9°C-5.9°C4.31.19.810 h
February 5.0°C-3.5°C-3.5°C7.61.710.711 h
March, selected 11.4°C1.5°C1.5°C112.311.912 h
April 19.0°C8.6°C8.6°C314.513.213 h
May 24.9°C15.0°C15.0°C425.514.314 h
June 28.5°C20.2°C20.2°C777.714.915 h
July 30.0°C23.4°C23.4°C15210.814.615 h
August 28.9°C22.6°C22.6°C14010.013.714 h
September 25.6°C17.9°C17.9°C546.412.512 h
October 19.1°C11.0°C11.0°C364.911.211 h
November 10.4°C2.6°C2.6°C172.910.110 h
December 3.4°C-3.7°C-3.7°C6.01.69.59 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

Distance from Tanggu

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Tanggu) is explained once on the Tanggu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.