Climate averages 1991–2020
Pyongyang weather
in March.
A cool, fairly dry month: the joint 8th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Pyongyang: daytime highs average 9.1°C and nights cool to about -2.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 27 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Man’gyŏngdae-ri (9 km away). In March its highs average 9.1°C, about as warm as Pyongyang, with 27 mm of rain.
Among the 38 cities listed in North Korea, Pyongyang ranks joint 6th of 38 for the warmest March highs and joint 11th of 38 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 38 cities is 7.6°C; Pyongyang is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 7.2°C to 16.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 27 mm to 53 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Pyongyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.7°C-9.5°C | -9.5°C | 13 | 3.3 | 9.810 h |
| February | 3.0°C-6.6°C | -6.6°C | 20 | 3.9 | 10.711 h |
| March, selected | 9.1°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 27 | 4.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.4°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 53 | 6.6 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.2°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 94 | 7.9 | 14.314 h |
| June | 26.4°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 107 | 9.8 | 14.915 h |
| July | 27.9°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 263 | 15.7 | 14.615 h |
| August | 28.1°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 219 | 13.7 | 13.714 h |
| September | 24.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 91 | 6.7 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.7°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 43 | 5.7 | 11.211 h |
| November | 9.1°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 45 | 7.1 | 10.110 h |
| December | 1.4°C-6.7°C | -6.7°C | 23 | 5.5 | 9.59 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Man’gyŏngdae-ri in MarchNorth Korea · 9 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low -1.8°C · 27 mm rain
- Kangsŏn in MarchNorth Korea · 18 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low -1.7°C · 25 mm rain
- P’yŏngsŏng in MarchNorth Korea · 26 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low -2.0°C · 29 mm rain
- Songnim-ni in MarchNorth Korea · 32 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low -1.8°C · 26 mm rain
- Namp’o in MarchNorth Korea · 45 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low -1.3°C · 25 mm rain
- Sunch’ŏn in MarchNorth Korea · 47 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low -2.2°C · 32 mm rain
- Paek'ak in MarchNorth Korea · 49 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low -2.2°C · 27 mm rain
- Chaeryŏng-ni in MarchNorth Korea · 56 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low -1.2°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 Pyongyang) is explained once on the Pyongyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Man’gyŏngdae-ri lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.