Climate averages 1991–2020
Lille weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the joint 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Lille: daytime highs average 10.8°C and nights cool to about 3.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 51 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 51 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Roubaix (11 km away). In March its highs average 10.7°C, about as warm as Lille, with 53 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Lille ranks joint 50th of 57 for the warmest March highs and joint 16th of 57 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 57 cities is 12.4°C; Lille is 1.5°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 14.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 51 mm to 48 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
Lille climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.6°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 60 | 11.8 | 8.59 h |
| February | 7.7°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 51 | 10.7 | 10.010 h |
| March, selected | 10.8°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 51 | 10.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.3°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 48 | 10.8 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.6°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 62 | 11.9 | 15.515 h |
| June | 20.4°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 60 | 10.4 | 16.416 h |
| July | 22.5°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 61 | 11.0 | 16.016 h |
| August | 22.5°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 70 | 11.0 | 14.515 h |
| September | 19.3°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 53 | 9.9 | 12.713 h |
| October | 15.2°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 60 | 11.2 | 10.811 h |
| November | 10.3°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 61 | 12.2 | 9.09 h |
| December | 7.0°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 70 | 12.5 | 8.18 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
- Roubaix in MarchFrance · 11 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 3.2°C · 53 mm rain
- Kortrijk in MarchBelgium · 26 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 3.5°C · 53 mm rain
- Brugge in MarchBelgium · 65 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 4.1°C · 50 mm rain
- Dunkirk in MarchFrance · 65 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 4.1°C · 48 mm rain
- Gent in MarchBelgium · 66 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 3.4°C · 53 mm rain
- Mons in MarchBelgium · 66 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 3.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Aalst in MarchBelgium · 77 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 3.3°C · 53 mm rain
- La Louvière in MarchBelgium · 82 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 2.5°C · 59 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 Lille) is explained once on the Lille year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.