Climate averages 1991–2020
Freiburg 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 Freiburg: daytime highs average 10.7°C and nights cool to about 2.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 52 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mulhouse (48 km away). In March its highs average 10.7°C, about as warm as Freiburg, with 71 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Freiburg ranks joint 5th of 120 for the warmest March highs and 114th of 120 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 120 cities is 9.3°C; Freiburg is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.3°C to 15.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 83 mm to 74 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
Freiburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 91 | 13.3 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 77 | 11.5 | 10.210 h |
| March, selected | 10.7°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 83 | 13.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 74 | 13.1 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.9°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 105 | 15.4 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 89 | 14.2 | 16.016 h |
| July | 24.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 89 | 13.5 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.4°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 81 | 12.3 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 77 | 11.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.4°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 85 | 12.2 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.5°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 89 | 12.4 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.8°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 108 | 14.4 | 8.58 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
- Mulhouse in MarchFrance · 48 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 1.7°C · 71 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in MarchGermany · 48 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Basel in MarchSwitzerland · 53 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Strasbourg in MarchFrance · 66 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 2.1°C · 70 mm rain
- Winterthur in MarchSwitzerland · 85 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.8°C · 82 mm rain
- Zürich in MarchSwitzerland · 87 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.1°C · 98 mm rain
- Konstanz in MarchGermany · 106 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 2.1°C · 78 mm rain
- Tübingen in MarchGermany · 106 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.9°C · 70 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 Freiburg) is explained once on the Freiburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.