Climate averages 1991–2020
Yixing weather
in March.
A cool, 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 cool month in Yixing: daytime highs average 14.4°C and nights cool to about 6.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 117 mm of rain on roughly 13 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 Licheng, China (33 km away). In March its highs average 15.0°C, 0.6°C warmer than Yixing, with 93 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yixing ranks joint 510th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 743rd of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Yixing is level with that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.9°C to 20.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 117 mm to 124 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
Yixing climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.5°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 75 | 9.5 | 10.410 h |
| February | 9.8°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 82 | 9.8 | 11.111 h |
| March, selected | 14.4°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 117 | 12.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.3°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 124 | 10.9 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.0°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 152 | 11.1 | 13.714 h |
| June | 27.9°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 284 | 14.3 | 14.214 h |
| July | 31.6°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 199 | 15.0 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.0°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 184 | 16.1 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.0°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 92 | 9.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.1°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 66 | 6.8 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.2°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 63 | 8.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 9.8°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 52 | 7.0 | 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
- Licheng, China in MarchChina · 33 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 6.0°C · 93 mm rain
- Changzhou in MarchChina · 48 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 5.6°C · 80 mm rain
- Wuxi in MarchChina · 50 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 5.9°C · 103 mm rain
- Huzhou in MarchChina · 60 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 6.5°C · 120 mm rain
- Taozhou in MarchChina · 64 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.5°C · 112 mm rain
- Suzhou in MarchChina · 74 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 6.5°C · 116 mm rain
- Jiangyin in MarchChina · 74 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 5.2°C · 79 mm rain
- Songling in MarchChina · 87 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 6.2°C · 93 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 Yixing) is explained once on the Yixing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.