Climate averages 1991–2020
Zunyi weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the joint 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 Zunyi: daytime highs average 14.5°C and nights cool to about 7.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 113 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes March a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 59 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Loushanguan (51 km away). In March its highs average 14.2°C, about as warm as Zunyi, with 96 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zunyi ranks joint 499th of 884 for the warmest March highs and joint 732nd of 884 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 884 cities is 14.4°C; Zunyi is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.2°C to 19.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 113 mm to 159 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
Zunyi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.3°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 68 | 15.1 | 10.611 h |
| February | 10.2°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 68 | 14.5 | 11.211 h |
| March, selected | 14.5°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 113 | 19.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.7°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 159 | 19.5 | 12.813 h |
| May | 23.3°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 225 | 20.3 | 13.514 h |
| June | 25.9°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 242 | 20.4 | 13.914 h |
| July | 28.3°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 185 | 17.5 | 13.714 h |
| August | 28.5°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 132 | 15.9 | 13.113 h |
| September | 24.9°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 118 | 13.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 18.9°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 145 | 17.3 | 11.512 h |
| November | 14.5°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 94 | 14.6 | 10.811 h |
| December | 9.2°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 61 | 13.8 | 10.410 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
- Loushanguan in MarchChina · 51 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 7.5°C · 96 mm rain
- Gulin in MarchChina · 115 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 10.2°C · 88 mm rain
- Guiyang in MarchChina · 124 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.4°C · 97 mm rain
- Wansheng in MarchChina · 142 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 10.1°C · 95 mm rain
- Gunan in MarchChina · 151 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 10.5°C · 85 mm rain
- Xuyong in MarchChina · 154 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 10.3°C · 86 mm rain
- Kaili in MarchChina · 162 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.8°C · 100 mm rain
- Hejiang in MarchChina · 163 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 10.9°C · 64 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 Zunyi) is explained once on the Zunyi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.