Climate averages 1991–2020

Yueyang weather
in March.

A mild, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 16.1°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 8.2°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 143 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a mild month in Yueyang: daytime highs average 16.1°C and nights cool to about 8.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 143 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes March a wet month (the 8th 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 Xindi (61 km away). In March its highs average 16.2°C, about as warm as Yueyang, with 127 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yueyang ranks joint 316th of 884 for the warmest March highs and 807th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Yueyang is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 5.9°C to 22.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 143 mm to 211 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Yueyang climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Yueyang, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	9.0°C2.1°C	2.1°C	65	9.4	10.510 h
February	11.7°C4.3°C	4.3°C	88	11.0	11.111 h
March, selected	16.1°C8.2°C	8.2°C	143	14.7	12.012 h
April	22.1°C14.1°C	14.1°C	211	14.8	12.913 h
May	26.5°C18.9°C	18.9°C	243	14.2	13.614 h
June	29.3°C22.9°C	22.9°C	295	15.8	14.014 h
July	32.1°C26.1°C	26.1°C	235	13.6	13.814 h
August	31.8°C25.5°C	25.5°C	130	13.5	13.213 h
September	28.2°C21.2°C	21.2°C	89	9.3	12.412 h
October	23.0°C15.7°C	15.7°C	73	8.1	11.511 h
November	17.0°C9.7°C	9.7°C	73	8.3	10.711 h
December	11.3°C4.2°C	4.2°C	41	6.8	10.310 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

Distance from Yueyang

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Yueyang) is explained once on the Yueyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.