Climate averages 1991–2020
Cannes 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 Cannes: daytime highs average 14.6°C and nights cool to about 5.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 54 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 54 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Antibes (10 km away). In March its highs average 14.4°C, about as warm as Cannes, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Cannes ranks joint 8th of 57 for the warmest March highs and joint 31st of 57 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 57 cities is 12.4°C; Cannes is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 17.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 54 mm to 67 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
Cannes climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11.3°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 64 | 6.5 | 9.39 h |
| February | 11.9°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 53 | 6.8 | 10.510 h |
| March, selected | 14.6°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 54 | 6.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.0°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 67 | 7.8 | 13.413 h |
| May | 20.7°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 47 | 6.3 | 14.715 h |
| June | 24.6°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 32 | 4.5 | 15.415 h |
| July | 27.5°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 13 | 2.5 | 15.115 h |
| August | 27.8°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 19 | 3.7 | 14.014 h |
| September | 23.7°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 70 | 6.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 19.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 108 | 8.9 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.9°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 129 | 9.4 | 9.710 h |
| December | 12.0°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 79 | 7.7 | 9.09 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
- Antibes in MarchFrance · 10 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 6.1°C · 54 mm rain
- Nice in MarchFrance · 26 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 6.8°C · 63 mm rain
- Monaco in MarchMonaco · 39 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 7.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Toulon in MarchFrance · 100 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 7.7°C · 43 mm rain
- Aix-en-Provence in MarchFrance · 126 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 4.3°C · 44 mm rain
- Marseille in MarchFrance · 135 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 7.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Marseille 15 in MarchFrance · 135 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 5.3°C · 37 mm rain
- Turin in MarchItaly · 177 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.0°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 Cannes) is explained once on the Cannes year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Antibes lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.