Climate averages 1991–2020
Erfurt weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Erfurt: daytime highs average 8.7°C and nights cool to about 0.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 47 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 5th 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 Jena (39 km away). In March its highs average 9.1°C, about as warm as Erfurt, with 48 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Erfurt ranks joint 90th of 120 for the warmest March highs and joint 4th of 120 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 120 cities is 9.3°C; Erfurt is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.0°C to 13.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 47 mm to 41 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
Erfurt climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.3°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 43 | 11.0 | 8.58 h |
| February | 4.9°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 35 | 9.3 | 10.010 h |
| March, selected | 8.7°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 47 | 11.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.7°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 41 | 9.4 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.7°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 63 | 11.0 | 15.516 h |
| June | 20.9°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 57 | 11.3 | 16.516 h |
| July | 23.2°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 70 | 11.8 | 16.116 h |
| August | 23.2°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 60 | 10.6 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.7°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 52 | 9.4 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.4°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 46 | 10.4 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.7°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 49 | 10.4 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.1°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 49 | 11.6 | 8.08 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
- Jena in MarchGermany · 39 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 1.2°C · 48 mm rain
- Gera in MarchGermany · 74 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 1.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Halle (Saale) in MarchGermany · 86 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 1.2°C · 42 mm rain
- Göttingen in MarchGermany · 99 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Leipzig in MarchGermany · 101 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 1.1°C · 49 mm rain
- Zwickau in MarchGermany · 106 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 0.8°C · 67 mm rain
- Kassel in MarchGermany · 114 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 1.3°C · 55 mm rain
- Bamberg in MarchGermany · 120 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 1.2°C · 64 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 Erfurt) is explained once on the Erfurt year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.