Climate averages 1991–2020
Dijon weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Dijon: daytime highs average 11.5°C and nights cool to about 2.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 66 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 2nd 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 Besançon (76 km away). In March its highs average 11.2°C, about as warm as Dijon, with 95 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Dijon ranks joint 36th of 57 for the warmest March highs and joint 49th of 57 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 57 cities is 12.4°C; Dijon is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 15.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 66 mm to 75 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
Dijon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.1°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 73 | 12.5 | 8.99 h |
| February | 7.5°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 63 | 11.1 | 10.210 h |
| March, selected | 11.5°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 66 | 11.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 75 | 12.2 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.8°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 89 | 13.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.6°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 74 | 12.3 | 15.916 h |
| July | 25.1°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 71 | 11.3 | 15.516 h |
| August | 25.2°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 70 | 10.7 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.8°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 75 | 10.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.0°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 89 | 12.3 | 10.911 h |
| November | 10.0°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 91 | 12.6 | 9.49 h |
| December | 6.6°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 84 | 13.6 | 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
- Besançon in MarchFrance · 76 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 2.7°C · 95 mm rain
- Geneva in MarchSwitzerland · 151 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 2.1°C · 109 mm rain
- Lausanne in MarchSwitzerland · 152 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 2.8°C · 94 mm rain
- Villeurbanne in MarchFrance · 172 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Lyon in MarchFrance · 174 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 3.4°C · 60 mm rain
- Nancy in MarchFrance · 176 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.4°C · 66 mm rain
- Mulhouse in MarchFrance · 180 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 1.7°C · 71 mm rain
- Bern in MarchSwitzerland · 189 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low -0.2°C · 84 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 Dijon) is explained once on the Dijon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.