Climate averages 1991–2020
Mulhouse weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Mulhouse: daytime highs average 10.7°C and nights cool to about 1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 3rd 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 Basel (28 km away). In March its highs average 11.1°C, about as warm as Mulhouse, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Mulhouse ranks joint 52nd of 57 for the warmest March highs and 53rd of 57 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 57 cities is 12.4°C; Mulhouse is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.0°C to 14.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 71 mm to 68 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
Mulhouse climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.0°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 75 | 12.5 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 66 | 10.7 | 10.210 h |
| March, selected | 10.7°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 71 | 12.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.7°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 68 | 11.8 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.4°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 93 | 14.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 80 | 13.2 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 81 | 12.9 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 80 | 12.0 | 14.314 h |
| September | 19.7°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 74 | 10.9 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.9°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 83 | 12.1 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.0°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 81 | 11.8 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.4°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 92 | 13.2 | 8.58 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
- Basel in MarchSwitzerland · 28 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Freiburg in MarchGermany · 48 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 2.1°C · 83 mm rain
- Bern in MarchSwitzerland · 90 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low -0.2°C · 84 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in MarchGermany · 93 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Strasbourg in MarchFrance · 98 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 2.1°C · 70 mm rain
- Zürich in MarchSwitzerland · 101 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.1°C · 98 mm rain
- Luzern in MarchSwitzerland · 107 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 1.2°C · 126 mm rain
- Winterthur in MarchSwitzerland · 108 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.8°C · 82 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 Mulhouse) is explained once on the Mulhouse year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.