Climate averages 1991–2020

Tongling 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.

Average high 15.6°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 6.5°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 107 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Tongling · average highYear overview

March is a mild month in Tongling: daytime highs average 15.6°C and nights cool to about 6.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 107 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 Chizhou (43 km away). In March its highs average 15.5°C, about as warm as Tongling, with 114 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Tongling ranks joint 372nd of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 714th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Tongling is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 6.1°C to 21.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 107 mm to 122 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. -505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3000

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

Every month, side by side

Tongling climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Tongling, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 8.2°C0.4°C0.4°C649.010.410 h
February 10.9°C2.4°C2.4°C739.511.111 h
March, selected 15.6°C6.5°C6.5°C10712.012.012 h
April 21.7°C12.1°C12.1°C12210.712.913 h
May 26.2°C17.4°C17.4°C15510.913.714 h
June 28.8°C21.5°C21.5°C27314.014.114 h
July 32.0°C25.3°C25.3°C20513.013.914 h
August 31.5°C24.9°C24.9°C14913.913.313 h
September 27.6°C20.3°C20.3°C768.412.412 h
October 22.8°C14.5°C14.5°C596.611.411 h
November 16.8°C8.3°C8.3°C537.410.611 h
December 10.4°C2.2°C2.2°C386.410.210 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

Distance from Tongling

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 Tongling) is explained once on the Tongling year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.