Climate averages 1991–2020

Zwickau 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.

Average high 8.3°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 0.8°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 67 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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March is a cool month in Zwickau: daytime highs average 8.3°C and nights cool to about 0.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 5th 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 Gera (33 km away). In March its highs average 8.7°C, about as warm as Zwickau, with 54 mm of rain.

Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Zwickau ranks joint 105th of 120 for the warmest March highs and joint 76th of 120 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 120 cities is 9.3°C; Zwickau is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 5.3°C to 13.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 67 mm to 51 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Zwickau climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Zwickau, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 2.9°C-1.9°C-1.9°C6813.68.59 h
February 4.3°C-1.9°C-1.9°C5411.610.010 h
March, selected 8.3°C0.8°C0.8°C6713.611.812 h
April 13.6°C4.4°C4.4°C5110.713.814 h
May 17.8°C8.8°C8.8°C7513.315.515 h
June 20.9°C12.3°C12.3°C8312.616.416 h
July 23.0°C14.4°C14.4°C9313.016.016 h
August 23.0°C14.4°C14.4°C7912.314.515 h
September 18.4°C10.7°C10.7°C6911.212.713 h
October 13.3°C7.0°C7.0°C6411.310.811 h
November 7.6°C2.7°C2.7°C6611.79.09 h
December 3.8°C-0.4°C-0.4°C7013.98.18 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

Distance from Zwickau

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Zwickau) is explained once on the Zwickau year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.