Climate averages 1991–2020

Florence weather
in March.

A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 14.1°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 4.2°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 73 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a cool month in Florence: daytime highs average 14.1°C and nights cool to about 4.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 54 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Prato (16 km away). In March its highs average 13.9°C, about as warm as Florence, with 84 mm of rain.

Among the 79 cities listed in Italy, Florence ranks joint 41st of 79 for the warmest March highs and 48th of 79 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 79 cities is 14.2°C; Florence is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 17.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 73 mm to 82 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Florence climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Florence, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	9.2°C1.7°C	1.7°C	67	9.9	9.39 h
February	10.5°C1.6°C	1.6°C	77	9.6	10.510 h
March, selected	14.1°C4.2°C	4.2°C	73	9.7	11.912 h
April	17.5°C7.2°C	7.2°C	82	11.5	13.413 h
May	21.8°C11.2°C	11.2°C	72	9.2	14.715 h
June	26.3°C15.6°C	15.6°C	45	6.9	15.415 h
July	29.5°C18.4°C	18.4°C	29	4.0	15.115 h
August	29.7°C18.7°C	18.7°C	31	5.0	14.014 h
September	24.5°C14.5°C	14.5°C	82	8.6	12.613 h
October	19.2°C10.8°C	10.8°C	114	11.5	11.111 h
November	13.8°C6.6°C	6.6°C	128	12.6	9.710 h
December	9.9°C2.7°C	2.7°C	97	11.6	9.09 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 Florence

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 Florence) is explained once on the Florence year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.