Climate averages 1991–2020
Xiaoshan 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.
March is a mild month in Xiaoshan: daytime highs average 15.6°C and nights cool to about 6.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 119 mm of rain on roughly 14 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 Hangzhou (17 km away). In March its highs average 15.5°C, about as warm as Xiaoshan, with 119 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Xiaoshan ranks joint 372nd of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 756th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Xiaoshan is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.9°C to 21.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 119 mm to 131 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
Xiaoshan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.9°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 80 | 10.3 | 10.410 h |
| February | 11.3°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 74 | 10.0 | 11.111 h |
| March, selected | 15.6°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 119 | 13.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.5°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 131 | 12.1 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.1°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 156 | 12.2 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.5°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 303 | 16.2 | 14.114 h |
| July | 33.1°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 173 | 12.9 | 13.914 h |
| August | 32.6°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 140 | 14.8 | 13.213 h |
| September | 28.0°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 98 | 10.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.2°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 59 | 6.3 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.6°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 65 | 8.5 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.3°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 59 | 7.5 | 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
- Hangzhou in MarchChina · 17 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 6.5°C · 119 mm rain
- Linping in MarchChina · 29 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 6.4°C · 129 mm rain
- Fuyang, China in MarchChina · 32 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 6.8°C · 136 mm rain
- Shaoxing in MarchChina · 36 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 6.6°C · 128 mm rain
- Chóngfú in MarchChina · 44 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 6.4°C · 128 mm rain
- Zhuji in MarchChina · 50 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 6.7°C · 125 mm rain
- Deqing in MarchChina · 51 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 5.9°C · 136 mm rain
- Haining in MarchChina · 58 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 7.1°C · 147 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 Xiaoshan) is explained once on the Xiaoshan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Hangzhou lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.