Climate averages 1991–2020
Paris weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Paris: daytime highs average 11.8°C and nights cool to about 3.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 50 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 3rd 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 Paris 13 Gobelins (2 km away). In March its highs average 11.7°C, about as warm as Paris, with 50 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Paris ranks joint 28th of 57 for the warmest March highs and joint 10th of 57 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 57 cities is 12.4°C; Paris is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.3°C to 15.1°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 50 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
Paris climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.1°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 52 | 11.3 | 8.89 h |
| February | 8.3°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 48 | 10.0 | 10.110 h |
| March, selected | 11.8°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 50 | 10.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 50 | 10.6 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.6°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 66 | 11.3 | 15.215 h |
| June | 21.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 57 | 10.6 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.1°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 55 | 9.4 | 15.716 h |
| August | 24.3°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 56 | 9.0 | 14.414 h |
| September | 20.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 47 | 8.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.1°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 62 | 11.2 | 10.911 h |
| November | 10.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 58 | 11.3 | 9.29 h |
| December | 7.5°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 68 | 12.5 | 8.38 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
- Paris 13 Gobelins in MarchFrance · 2 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 3.5°C · 50 mm rain
- Paris 15 Vaugirard in MarchFrance · 4 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 3.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Paris 20 Ménilmontant in MarchFrance · 4 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 3.1°C · 52 mm rain
- Boulogne-Billancourt in MarchFrance · 8 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 4.0°C · 50 mm rain
- Créteil in MarchFrance · 11 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 3.6°C · 52 mm rain
- Argenteuil in MarchFrance · 13 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 3.7°C · 51 mm rain
- Aulnay-sous-Bois in MarchFrance · 14 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 3.5°C · 51 mm rain
- Versailles in MarchFrance · 17 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.3°C · 50 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 Paris) is explained once on the Paris year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Paris 15 Vaugirard, Paris 13 Gobelins and Boulogne-Billancourt lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.