Climate averages 1991–2020
Wushan weather
in March.
A mild, wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Wushan: daytime highs average 16.7°C and nights cool to about 9.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 98 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a wet month (the 5th 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 Yong’an (40 km away). In March its highs average 16.8°C, about as warm as Wushan, with 80 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Wushan ranks joint 243rd of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 696th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Wushan is 2.3°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.3°C to 21.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 98 mm to 136 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
Wushan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.8°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 45 | 8.8 | 10.410 h |
| February | 12.4°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 59 | 10.0 | 11.111 h |
| March, selected | 16.7°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 98 | 13.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.9°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 136 | 14.1 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.7°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 190 | 15.0 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.9°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 261 | 15.6 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.1°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 312 | 21.4 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.2°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 206 | 17.7 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.0°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 165 | 13.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.7°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 129 | 12.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.7°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 85 | 11.4 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.5°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 43 | 8.8 | 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
- Yong’an in MarchChina · 40 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 9.2°C · 80 mm rain
- Chengxiang in MarchChina · 46 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 8.8°C · 78 mm rain
- Yezhou in MarchChina · 55 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.7°C · 95 mm rain
- Enshi in MarchChina · 94 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 7.9°C · 121 mm rain
- Lichuan in MarchChina · 131 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 4.4°C · 118 mm rain
- Yichang in MarchChina · 140 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 7.4°C · 65 mm rain
- Hanfeng in MarchChina · 141 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 10.1°C · 88 mm rain
- Wanzhou in MarchChina · 145 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 10.5°C · 98 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 Wushan) is explained once on the Wushan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.