Climate averages 1991–2020
Essen 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 Essen: daytime highs average 9.7°C and nights cool to about 2.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 65 mm of rain on roughly 13 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 Gelsenkirchen (8 km away). In March its highs average 10.0°C, about as warm as Essen, with 65 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Essen ranks joint 45th of 120 for the warmest March highs and joint 70th of 120 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 120 cities is 9.3°C; Essen is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 14.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 65 mm to 51 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
Essen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.9°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 78 | 13.9 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.2°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 64 | 12.0 | 9.910 h |
| March, selected | 9.7°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 65 | 12.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.1°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 51 | 10.8 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.8°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 62 | 11.5 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.7°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 70 | 12.0 | 16.517 h |
| July | 22.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 82 | 13.6 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 81 | 12.5 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 69 | 11.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.0°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 71 | 12.0 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.9°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 71 | 13.1 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.5°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 84 | 14.1 | 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
- Gelsenkirchen in MarchGermany · 8 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 2.5°C · 65 mm rain
- Mülheim in MarchGermany · 10 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 2.9°C · 65 mm rain
- Oberhausen in MarchGermany · 11 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 2.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Gladbeck in MarchGermany · 13 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 2.4°C · 65 mm rain
- Velbert in MarchGermany · 14 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 1.6°C · 79 mm rain
- Bochum in MarchGermany · 14 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 71 mm rain
- Duisburg in MarchGermany · 17 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 2.8°C · 60 mm rain
- Ratingen in MarchGermany · 21 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 2.7°C · 67 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 Essen) is explained once on the Essen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Gelsenkirchen, Mülheim and Gladbeck lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.