Climate averages 1991–2020
Dortmund 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 Dortmund: daytime highs average 9.5°C and nights cool to about 2.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 72 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 50 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Witten (11 km away). In March its highs average 9.4°C, about as warm as Dortmund, with 71 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Dortmund ranks joint 54th of 120 for the warmest March highs and joint 103rd of 120 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 120 cities is 9.3°C; Dortmund is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 13.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 72 mm to 57 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
Dortmund climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.7°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 83 | 14.3 | 8.48 h |
| February | 5.9°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 68 | 12.5 | 9.910 h |
| March, selected | 9.5°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 72 | 13.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.9°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 57 | 11.5 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.7°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 69 | 12.7 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.5°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 76 | 12.6 | 16.517 h |
| July | 22.6°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 90 | 14.2 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.4°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 87 | 13.5 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.6°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 75 | 12.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.8°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 74 | 12.3 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.8°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 75 | 14.1 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.3°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 87 | 14.7 | 7.98 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
- Witten in MarchGermany · 11 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 2.4°C · 71 mm rain
- Castrop-Rauxel in MarchGermany · 12 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 2.3°C · 71 mm rain
- Lünen in MarchGermany · 12 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 2.4°C · 72 mm rain
- Hagen in MarchGermany · 17 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 2.4°C · 91 mm rain
- Bochum in MarchGermany · 18 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 71 mm rain
- Recklinghausen in MarchGermany · 22 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 2.3°C · 71 mm rain
- Iserlohn in MarchGermany · 23 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 1.4°C · 71 mm rain
- Gelsenkirchen in MarchGermany · 26 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 2.5°C · 65 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 Dortmund) is explained once on the Dortmund year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Lünen lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.