Climate averages 1991–2020
Beirut weather
in March.
A mild, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Beirut: daytime highs average 18.8°C and nights cool to about 9.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 105 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Aley (13 km away). In March its highs average 14.2°C, 4.7°C cooler than Beirut, with 94 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Lebanon, Beirut ranks 1st of 8 for the warmest March highs and joint 6th of 8 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 8 cities is 17.2°C; Beirut is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 22.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 105 mm to 46 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
Beirut climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.7°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 144 | 13.8 | 10.210 h |
| February | 16.4°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 140 | 11.4 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 18.8°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 105 | 9.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.3°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 46 | 5.6 | 13.013 h |
| May | 26.1°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 17 | 3.0 | 13.914 h |
| June | 29.0°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 2.0 | 0.7 | 14.414 h |
| July | 31.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 14.214 h |
| August | 31.4°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 0.8 | 0.3 | 13.413 h |
| September | 30.1°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 6.0 | 1.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.5°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 30 | 4.5 | 11.411 h |
| November | 22.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 78 | 7.7 | 10.410 h |
| December | 17.7°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 133 | 11.3 | 9.910 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
- Aley in MarchLebanon · 13 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 4.3°C · 94 mm rain
- Jounieh in MarchLebanon · 14 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 10.2°C · 105 mm rain
- Zahlé in MarchLebanon · 37 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 3.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Sidon in MarchLebanon · 39 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 10.5°C · 107 mm rain
- Nabatîyé et Tahta in MarchLebanon · 57 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 7.8°C · 95 mm rain
- Tripoli, Lebanon in MarchLebanon · 68 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 10.9°C · 93 mm rain
- Tyre in MarchLebanon · 75 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 11.8°C · 102 mm rain
- Dārayyā in MarchSyria · 83 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 5.1°C · 25 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 Beirut) is explained once on the Beirut year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Jounieh lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.