Climate averages 1991–2020
Copenhagen weather
in March.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cold month in Copenhagen: daytime highs average 6.0°C and nights cool to about 0.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 43 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 48 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Malmö (28 km away). In March its highs average 6.0°C, about as warm as Copenhagen, with 40 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Denmark, Copenhagen ranks joint 4th of 5 for the warmest March highs and 3rd of 5 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 5 cities is 6.2°C; Copenhagen is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.8°C to 10.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 43 mm to 41 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
Copenhagen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.0°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 50 | 11.7 | 7.78 h |
| February | 3.3°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 41 | 9.5 | 9.610 h |
| March, selected | 6.0°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 43 | 10.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.8°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 41 | 9.3 | 14.114 h |
| May | 15.4°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 52 | 10.3 | 16.216 h |
| June | 18.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 71 | 11.2 | 17.417 h |
| July | 20.9°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 72 | 12.0 | 16.917 h |
| August | 20.6°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 77 | 12.8 | 15.115 h |
| September | 16.7°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 59 | 10.2 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.7°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 60 | 11.7 | 10.511 h |
| November | 7.2°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 50 | 11.0 | 8.48 h |
| December | 4.1°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 53 | 11.5 | 7.27 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
- Malmö in MarchSweden · 28 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 0.0°C · 40 mm rain
- Lund in MarchSweden · 39 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low -0.6°C · 44 mm rain
- Helsingborg in MarchSweden · 42 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low -0.1°C · 45 mm rain
- Halmstad in MarchSweden · 112 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -0.6°C · 48 mm rain
- Odense in MarchDenmark · 140 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 0.8°C · 41 mm rain
- Århus in MarchDenmark · 156 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 0.7°C · 42 mm rain
- Rostock in MarchGermany · 179 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 0.9°C · 46 mm rain
- Växjö in MarchSweden · 192 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -2.0°C · 39 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 Copenhagen) is explained once on the Copenhagen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.