Climate averages 1991–2020

Pistoia weather
in March.

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

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

Average high 14.0°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 4.1°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 84 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Pistoia · average highYear overview

March is a cool month in Pistoia: daytime highs average 14.0°C and nights cool to about 4.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 84 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 8th 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 (15 km away). In March its highs average 13.9°C, about as warm as Pistoia, with 84 mm of rain.

Among the 79 cities listed in Italy, Pistoia ranks joint 45th of 79 for the warmest March highs and joint 62nd of 79 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 79 cities is 14.2°C; Pistoia is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 17.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 84 mm to 97 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. -505101520253035 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 1500

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

Every month, side by side

Pistoia climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Pistoia, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 8.9°C1.3°C1.3°C769.39.39 h
February 10.3°C1.3°C1.3°C839.210.410 h
March, selected 14.0°C4.1°C4.1°C8410.111.912 h
April 17.4°C7.3°C7.3°C9712.713.413 h
May 21.6°C11.3°C11.3°C7911.914.715 h
June 25.8°C15.5°C15.5°C609.415.415 h
July 28.9°C18.2°C18.2°C427.915.115 h
August 29.2°C18.5°C18.5°C398.214.014 h
September 24.1°C14.4°C14.4°C819.912.613 h
October 18.9°C10.7°C10.7°C12311.911.011 h
November 13.4°C6.2°C6.2°C13812.89.710 h
December 9.6°C2.2°C2.2°C10811.09.09 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 Pistoia

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

Prato lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.