Climate averages 1991–2020
Nancy weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Nancy: daytime highs average 10.6°C and nights cool to about 2.4°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 4th 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 Metz (48 km away). In March its highs average 10.5°C, about as warm as Nancy, with 60 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nancy ranks 54th 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; Nancy is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 14.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 66 mm to 59 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
Nancy climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 71 | 12.8 | 8.89 h |
| February | 6.7°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 61 | 11.3 | 10.110 h |
| March, selected | 10.6°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 66 | 11.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.5°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 59 | 11.1 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 74 | 12.5 | 15.215 h |
| June | 21.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 67 | 11.2 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 63 | 11.2 | 15.716 h |
| August | 24.2°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 68 | 11.5 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 71 | 9.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.0°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 72 | 11.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 77 | 12.7 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.9°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 87 | 14.2 | 8.48 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
- Metz in MarchFrance · 48 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 2.4°C · 60 mm rain
- Saarbrücken in MarchGermany · 86 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 2.4°C · 70 mm rain
- Luxembourg in MarchLuxembourg · 103 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 1.6°C · 60 mm rain
- Strasbourg in MarchFrance · 115 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 2.1°C · 70 mm rain
- Trier in MarchGermany · 124 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 2.0°C · 70 mm rain
- Mulhouse in MarchFrance · 134 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 1.7°C · 71 mm rain
- Kaiserslautern in MarchGermany · 143 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 2.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Freiburg in MarchGermany · 145 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 Nancy) is explained once on the Nancy year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.