Climate averages 1991–2020
Lucknow weather
in March.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 7th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Lucknow: daytime highs average 31.1°C and nights cool to about 17.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 15 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 59 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nawābganj, India (29 km away). In March its highs average 31.0°C, about as warm as Lucknow, with 17 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Lucknow ranks joint 512th of 692 for the warmest March highs and joint 369th of 692 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 692 cities is 32.4°C; Lucknow is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.2°C to 37.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 15 mm to 8.4 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
Lucknow climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21.3°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 22 | 2.6 | 10.711 h |
| February | 25.0°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 22 | 2.7 | 11.211 h |
| March, selected | 31.1°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 15 | 2.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 37.3°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 8.4 | 2.3 | 12.813 h |
| May | 39.4°C26.3°C | 26.3°C | 16 | 3.9 | 13.513 h |
| June | 37.2°C27.8°C | 27.8°C | 124 | 11.5 | 13.814 h |
| July | 32.4°C26.4°C | 26.4°C | 298 | 24.5 | 13.714 h |
| August | 31.5°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 255 | 24.8 | 13.113 h |
| September | 31.3°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 156 | 15.7 | 12.312 h |
| October | 31.0°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 33 | 2.8 | 11.512 h |
| November | 27.6°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 2.2 | 0.6 | 10.911 h |
| December | 23.0°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 9.2 | 0.9 | 10.510 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
- Nawābganj, India in MarchIndia · 29 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 16.9°C · 17 mm rain
- Unnāo in MarchIndia · 54 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 16.9°C · 13 mm rain
- Kanpur Cantonment in MarchIndia · 69 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 17.1°C · 13 mm rain
- Kanpur in MarchIndia · 71 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 16.9°C · 12 mm rain
- Raebareli in MarchIndia · 74 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 17.3°C · 13 mm rain
- Sītāpur in MarchIndia · 84 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 16.5°C · 20 mm rain
- Hardoī in MarchIndia · 100 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 16.4°C · 19 mm rain
- Fatehpur (Uttar Pradesh), India in MarchIndia · 102 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 17.4°C · 11 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 Lucknow) is explained once on the Lucknow year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.