Climate averages 1991–2020
Hagen weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the 8th warmest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Hagen: daytime highs average 9.4°C and nights cool to about 2.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 91 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes March a wet month (the joint 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 (12 km away). In March its highs average 9.4°C, about as warm as Hagen, with 71 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Hagen ranks joint 60th of 120 for the warmest March highs and 120th of 120 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 120 cities is 9.3°C; Hagen is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 13.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 91 mm to 70 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
Hagen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.6°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 108 | 15.6 | 8.48 h |
| February | 5.7°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 89 | 13.5 | 9.910 h |
| March, selected | 9.4°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 91 | 14.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.8°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 70 | 12.5 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.5°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 83 | 13.9 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.4°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 91 | 14.4 | 16.517 h |
| July | 22.4°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 111 | 15.7 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.2°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 103 | 15.2 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.4°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 92 | 13.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.8°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 94 | 13.6 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.7°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 95 | 14.7 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.4°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 112 | 16.4 | 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
- Witten in MarchGermany · 12 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 2.4°C · 71 mm rain
- Iserlohn in MarchGermany · 16 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 1.4°C · 71 mm rain
- Dortmund in MarchGermany · 17 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 2.2°C · 72 mm rain
- Lüdenscheid in MarchGermany · 19 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 0.7°C · 88 mm rain
- Bochum in MarchGermany · 22 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 71 mm rain
- Castrop-Rauxel in MarchGermany · 24 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 2.3°C · 71 mm rain
- Wuppertal in MarchGermany · 25 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 2.2°C · 85 mm rain
- Remscheid in MarchGermany · 28 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 1.1°C · 85 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 Hagen) is explained once on the Hagen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.