Climate averages 1991–2020
Gießen weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Gießen: daytime highs average 9.5°C and nights cool to about 1.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 51 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 51 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Marburg an der Lahn (26 km away). In March its highs average 8.9°C, 0.6°C cooler than Gießen, with 51 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Gießen ranks joint 54th of 120 for the warmest March highs and joint 18th of 120 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 120 cities is 9.3°C; Gießen is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 14.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 51 mm to 46 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
Gießen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.0°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 56 | 11.3 | 8.59 h |
| February | 5.4°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 46 | 9.7 | 10.010 h |
| March, selected | 9.5°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 51 | 11.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.1°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 46 | 9.8 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.9°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 59 | 10.9 | 15.515 h |
| June | 21.2°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 61 | 10.7 | 16.416 h |
| July | 23.3°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 67 | 11.8 | 16.016 h |
| August | 23.2°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 60 | 10.3 | 14.515 h |
| September | 18.9°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 55 | 9.1 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.6°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 55 | 10.9 | 10.811 h |
| November | 8.0°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 56 | 11.1 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.5°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 67 | 13.1 | 8.18 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
- Marburg an der Lahn in MarchGermany · 26 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 1.0°C · 51 mm rain
- Frankfurt am Main in MarchGermany · 52 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 1.9°C · 54 mm rain
- Hanau am Main in MarchGermany · 53 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 1.8°C · 59 mm rain
- Offenbach in MarchGermany · 54 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 1.9°C · 54 mm rain
- Siegen in MarchGermany · 56 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 1.0°C · 82 mm rain
- Wiesbaden in MarchGermany · 64 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 2.4°C · 49 mm rain
- Mainz in MarchGermany · 73 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.9°C · 49 mm rain
- Darmstadt in MarchGermany · 80 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 2.0°C · 68 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 Gießen) is explained once on the Gießen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.