Climate averages 1991–2020
Zhenjiang weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Zhenjiang: daytime highs average 14.5°C and nights cool to about 4.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 76 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 6th 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 Yangzhou (21 km away). In March its highs average 14.6°C, about as warm as Zhenjiang, with 71 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhenjiang ranks joint 499th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 608th of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Zhenjiang is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.0°C to 20.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 76 mm to 87 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
Zhenjiang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.4°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 53 | 7.6 | 10.310 h |
| February | 9.9°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 53 | 8.2 | 11.011 h |
| March, selected | 14.5°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 76 | 9.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.5°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 87 | 9.0 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.3°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 114 | 9.4 | 13.814 h |
| June | 28.3°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 210 | 11.8 | 14.214 h |
| July | 31.2°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 231 | 15.1 | 14.014 h |
| August | 30.6°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 171 | 14.7 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.9°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 86 | 8.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.1°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 56 | 6.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.2°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 55 | 6.7 | 10.511 h |
| December | 9.7°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 35 | 5.5 | 10.110 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
- Yangzhou in MarchChina · 21 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 4.8°C · 71 mm rain
- Xiannü in MarchChina · 26 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 4.6°C · 71 mm rain
- Zhenzhou in MarchChina · 28 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 5.0°C · 76 mm rain
- Taizhou (Jiangsu), China in MarchChina · 53 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 4.2°C · 72 mm rain
- Taixing in MarchChina · 53 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.9°C · 75 mm rain
- Gaoyou in MarchChina · 64 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 5.9°C · 65 mm rain
- Nanjing in MarchChina · 66 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 5.1°C · 80 mm rain
- Changzhou in MarchChina · 68 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 5.6°C · 80 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 Zhenjiang) is explained once on the Zhenjiang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.