Climate averages 1991–2020
Budapest 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 Budapest: daytime highs average 10.7°C and nights cool to about 1.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 40 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 3rd 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 Székesfehérvár (59 km away). In March its highs average 10.6°C, about as warm as Budapest, with 41 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Hungary, Budapest ranks joint 5th of 11 for the warmest March highs and joint 6th of 11 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 11 cities is 10.7°C; Budapest is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.0°C to 16.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 40 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
Budapest climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.2°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 36 | 8.0 | 8.99 h |
| February | 5.6°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 35 | 8.1 | 10.210 h |
| March, selected | 10.7°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 40 | 8.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.7°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 45 | 8.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 21.3°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 67 | 11.9 | 15.115 h |
| June | 24.9°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 71 | 10.9 | 15.916 h |
| July | 27.0°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 69 | 10.2 | 15.616 h |
| August | 27.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 58 | 8.7 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 58 | 8.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.8°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 53 | 8.1 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 51 | 8.7 | 9.49 h |
| December | 3.7°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 43 | 8.3 | 8.59 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
- Székesfehérvár in MarchHungary · 59 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 1.4°C · 41 mm rain
- Kecskemét in MarchHungary · 82 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 1.5°C · 37 mm rain
- Szolnok in MarchHungary · 94 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.8°C · 36 mm rain
- Győr in MarchHungary · 107 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 1.6°C · 41 mm rain
- Nitra in MarchSlovakia · 115 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.8°C · 40 mm rain
- Banská Bystrica in MarchSlovakia · 138 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low -0.5°C · 58 mm rain
- Miskolc in MarchHungary · 146 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.4°C · 36 mm rain
- Bratislava in MarchSlovakia · 161 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 1.1°C · 42 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 Budapest) is explained once on the Budapest year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.