Climate averages 1991–2020
Neumünster weather
in March.
A cold, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cold month in Neumünster: daytime highs average 7.6°C and nights cool to about 1.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 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 49 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kiel (29 km away). In March its highs average 7.5°C, about as warm as Neumünster, with 49 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Neumünster ranks 116th of 120 for the warmest March highs and joint 22nd of 120 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 120 cities is 9.3°C; Neumünster is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.9°C to 12.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 52 mm to 45 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
Neumünster climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.7°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 64 | 12.4 | 8.08 h |
| February | 4.5°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 51 | 10.3 | 9.710 h |
| March, selected | 7.6°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 52 | 10.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.5°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 45 | 10.2 | 14.014 h |
| May | 16.6°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 60 | 11.1 | 16.016 h |
| June | 19.4°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 67 | 12.0 | 17.117 h |
| July | 21.7°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 76 | 12.8 | 16.617 h |
| August | 21.4°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 75 | 12.5 | 14.915 h |
| September | 17.7°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 56 | 10.0 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.7°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 60 | 11.5 | 10.611 h |
| November | 7.6°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 54 | 11.5 | 8.69 h |
| December | 4.4°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 65 | 12.8 | 7.57 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
- Kiel in MarchGermany · 29 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 1.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Norderstedt in MarchGermany · 41 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 1.1°C · 53 mm rain
- Lübeck in MarchGermany · 51 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 1.1°C · 48 mm rain
- Hamburg in MarchGermany · 58 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 1.0°C · 53 mm rain
- Flensburg in MarchGermany · 87 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 0.9°C · 50 mm rain
- Lüneburg in MarchGermany · 96 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 1.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Schwerin in MarchGermany · 106 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 0.8°C · 47 mm rain
- Bremerhaven in MarchGermany · 109 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 2.4°C · 54 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 Neumünster) is explained once on the Neumünster year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.