Climate averages 1991–2020
Besançon weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the 8th 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 Besançon: daytime highs average 11.2°C and nights cool to about 2.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 95 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 52 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dijon (76 km away). In March its highs average 11.5°C, about as warm as Besançon, with 66 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Besançon ranks joint 42nd of 57 for the warmest March highs and 55th of 57 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 57 cities is 12.4°C; Besançon is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 14.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 95 mm to 88 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
Besançon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.1°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 108 | 13.6 | 8.99 h |
| February | 7.3°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 96 | 12.5 | 10.210 h |
| March, selected | 11.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 95 | 12.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.9°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 88 | 12.8 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.5°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 110 | 14.2 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.2°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 85 | 12.6 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.7°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 76 | 11.9 | 15.516 h |
| August | 24.7°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 78 | 10.6 | 14.214 h |
| September | 20.2°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 93 | 11.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.9°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 105 | 12.4 | 10.911 h |
| November | 10.0°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 115 | 13.7 | 9.49 h |
| December | 6.6°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 124 | 15.2 | 8.69 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
- Dijon in MarchFrance · 76 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 2.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Lausanne in MarchSwitzerland · 94 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 2.8°C · 94 mm rain
- Bern in MarchSwitzerland · 113 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low -0.2°C · 84 mm rain
- Mulhouse in MarchFrance · 113 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 1.7°C · 71 mm rain
- Geneva in MarchSwitzerland · 117 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 2.1°C · 109 mm rain
- Basel in MarchSwitzerland · 122 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Nancy in MarchFrance · 160 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.4°C · 66 mm rain
- Freiburg in MarchGermany · 161 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 2.1°C · 83 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 Besançon) is explained once on the Besançon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.