Climate averages 1991–2020
Xingguo weather
in March.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Xingguo: daytime highs average 12.5°C and nights cool to about 1.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 27 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tianshui (32 km away). In March its highs average 12.7°C, about as warm as Xingguo, with 31 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Xingguo ranks joint 644th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 358th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Xingguo is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.0°C to 18.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 27 mm to 43 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
Xingguo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.3°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 9.8 | 3.6 | 10.110 h |
| February | 6.6°C-3.1°C | -3.1°C | 13 | 3.7 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 12.5°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 27 | 6.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.5°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 43 | 7.9 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.5°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 67 | 9.4 | 14.014 h |
| June | 26.3°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 82 | 8.8 | 14.514 h |
| July | 28.2°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 110 | 10.9 | 14.314 h |
| August | 27.0°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 113 | 10.8 | 13.513 h |
| September | 21.8°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 108 | 12.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 16.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 71 | 11.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 10.4°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 23 | 5.6 | 10.410 h |
| December | 4.9°C-4.0°C | -4.0°C | 7.7 | 2.4 | 9.910 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
- Tianshui in MarchChina · 32 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 1.8°C · 31 mm rain
- Xinxing in MarchChina · 33 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 1.0°C · 27 mm rain
- Gangu Chengguanzhen in MarchChina · 34 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 1.2°C · 27 mm rain
- Beidao in MarchChina · 38 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 2.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Pan’an in MarchChina · 52 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 0.7°C · 28 mm rain
- Luomen in MarchChina · 60 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 0.4°C · 28 mm rain
- Pingliang in MarchChina · 119 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low -0.9°C · 31 mm rain
- Dingxi in MarchChina · 124 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low -3.1°C · 21 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 Xingguo) is explained once on the Xingguo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.