Climate averages 1991–2020
Saint-Étienne 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 Saint-Étienne: daytime highs average 11.1°C and nights cool to about 2.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 55 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 53 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lyon (50 km away). In March its highs average 12.9°C, 1.7°C warmer than Saint-Étienne, with 60 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Saint-Étienne ranks joint 44th of 57 for the warmest March highs and joint 36th of 57 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 57 cities is 12.4°C; Saint-Étienne is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.1°C to 14.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 55 mm to 86 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
Saint-Étienne climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.3°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 63 | 12.2 | 9.19 h |
| February | 7.4°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 49 | 10.0 | 10.410 h |
| March, selected | 11.1°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 55 | 11.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.3°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 86 | 12.5 | 13.513 h |
| May | 18.1°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 98 | 13.5 | 14.915 h |
| June | 22.2°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 89 | 12.4 | 15.616 h |
| July | 24.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 83 | 10.4 | 15.315 h |
| August | 24.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 77 | 9.7 | 14.114 h |
| September | 20.2°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 90 | 9.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.8°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 95 | 11.5 | 11.011 h |
| November | 10.1°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 94 | 12.3 | 9.610 h |
| December | 7.0°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 64 | 11.4 | 8.89 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
- Lyon in MarchFrance · 50 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 3.4°C · 60 mm rain
- Villeurbanne in MarchFrance · 53 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Grenoble in MarchFrance · 107 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 3.1°C · 109 mm rain
- Clermont-Ferrand in MarchFrance · 108 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 2.3°C · 55 mm rain
- Geneva in MarchSwitzerland · 161 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 2.1°C · 109 mm rain
- Avignon in MarchFrance · 168 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 5.3°C · 44 mm rain
- Nîmes in MarchFrance · 178 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 5.7°C · 46 mm rain
- Montpellier in MarchFrance · 207 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 6.4°C · 46 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 Saint-Étienne) is explained once on the Saint-Étienne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.