Climate averages 1991–2020
Rijeka 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 Rijeka: daytime highs average 12.1°C and nights cool to about 4.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 123 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 53 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Trieste (63 km away). In March its highs average 12.4°C, about as warm as Rijeka, with 101 mm of rain.
Among the 4 cities listed in Croatia, Rijeka ranks joint 2nd of 4 for the warmest March highs and 4th of 4 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 4 cities is 12.5°C; Rijeka is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 16.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 123 mm to 114 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
Rijeka climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.8°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 122 | 11.5 | 9.29 h |
| February | 8.1°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 128 | 10.8 | 10.410 h |
| March, selected | 12.1°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 123 | 11.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.5°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 114 | 13.0 | 13.513 h |
| May | 20.7°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 120 | 13.7 | 14.915 h |
| June | 24.9°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 94 | 12.0 | 15.616 h |
| July | 27.6°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 77 | 10.0 | 15.315 h |
| August | 27.9°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 90 | 8.7 | 14.114 h |
| September | 22.3°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 177 | 11.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 17.3°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 208 | 13.4 | 11.011 h |
| November | 12.2°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 223 | 14.4 | 9.610 h |
| December | 7.7°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 169 | 12.2 | 8.89 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
- Trieste in MarchItaly · 63 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 4.1°C · 101 mm rain
- Ljubljana in MarchSlovenia · 81 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Udine in MarchItaly · 125 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 1.6°C · 93 mm rain
- Bihać in MarchBosnia and Herzegovina · 126 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 1.9°C · 100 mm rain
- Zagreb in MarchCroatia · 131 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 1.8°C · 59 mm rain
- Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in MarchAustria · 145 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 0.8°C · 76 mm rain
- Maribor in MarchSlovenia · 165 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 1.5°C · 59 mm rain
- Mestre in MarchItaly · 172 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.6°C · 70 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 Rijeka) is explained once on the Rijeka year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.