Climate averages 1991–2020
Prato 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.
March is a cool month in Prato: daytime highs average 13.9°C and nights cool to about 4.5°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 Pistoia (15 km away). In March its highs average 14.0°C, about as warm as Prato, with 84 mm of rain.
Among the 79 cities listed in Italy, Prato ranks joint 48th 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; Prato is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 17.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 84 mm to 97 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
Prato climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.8°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 76 | 9.3 | 9.39 h |
| February | 10.1°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 83 | 9.2 | 10.410 h |
| March, selected | 13.9°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 84 | 10.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.3°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 97 | 12.7 | 13.413 h |
| May | 21.5°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 79 | 11.9 | 14.715 h |
| June | 26.0°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 60 | 9.4 | 15.415 h |
| July | 29.1°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 42 | 7.9 | 15.115 h |
| August | 29.3°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 39 | 8.2 | 14.014 h |
| September | 24.1°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 81 | 9.9 | 12.613 h |
| October | 18.8°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 123 | 11.9 | 11.011 h |
| November | 13.4°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 138 | 12.8 | 9.710 h |
| December | 9.6°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 108 | 11.0 | 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
- Pistoia in MarchItaly · 15 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 4.1°C · 84 mm rain
- Florence in MarchItaly · 16 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 4.2°C · 73 mm rain
- Lucca in MarchItaly · 48 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 5.0°C · 79 mm rain
- Pisa in MarchItaly · 59 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 6.0°C · 79 mm rain
- Bologna in MarchItaly · 71 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 4.1°C · 63 mm rain
- Livorno in MarchItaly · 72 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 7.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Arezzo in MarchItaly · 78 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 4.0°C · 81 mm rain
- Forlì in MarchItaly · 84 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 4.0°C · 59 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 Prato) is explained once on the Prato year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pistoia lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.