Climate averages 1991–2020
Yantai weather
in March.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 9th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Yantai: daytime highs average 9.6°C and nights cool to about 1.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 21 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhuangyuan (57 km away). In March its highs average 10.8°C, 1.2°C warmer than Yantai, with 20 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yantai ranks joint 707th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 248th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Yantai is 4.7°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.9°C to 16.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 21 mm to 40 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
Yantai climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.1°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 13 | 3.2 | 9.910 h |
| February | 4.3°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 17 | 2.7 | 10.811 h |
| March, selected | 9.6°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 21 | 3.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.5°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 40 | 4.6 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.4°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 63 | 5.9 | 14.214 h |
| June | 26.7°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 73 | 6.2 | 14.715 h |
| July | 28.8°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 161 | 10.7 | 14.514 h |
| August | 28.2°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 133 | 10.4 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.6°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 56 | 5.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.8°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 34 | 4.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 11.5°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 37 | 5.6 | 10.210 h |
| December | 4.6°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 22 | 5.2 | 9.610 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
- Zhuangyuan in MarchChina · 57 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 0.5°C · 20 mm rain
- Tianfu in MarchChina · 59 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 1.1°C · 23 mm rain
- Weihai in MarchChina · 59 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low 2.4°C · 22 mm rain
- Dengzhou, China in MarchChina · 70 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 2.4°C · 18 mm rain
- Dongcun in MarchChina · 82 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 1.6°C · 26 mm rain
- Laiyang in MarchChina · 85 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 0.2°C · 20 mm rain
- Zhaoyuan (Shandong), China in MarchChina · 92 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 0.6°C · 19 mm rain
- Yatou in MarchChina · 95 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 1.4°C · 23 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 Yantai) is explained once on the Yantai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.