Climate averages 1991–2020
Lillestrøm weather
in March.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cold month in Lillestrøm: daytime highs average 3.6°C and nights cool to about -3.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 49 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 45 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Oslo (18 km away). In March its highs average 4.0°C, about as warm as Lillestrøm, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Norway, Lillestrøm ranks 7th of 8 for the warmest March highs and 2nd of 8 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 8 cities is 4.3°C; Lillestrøm is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.8°C to 9.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 49 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
Lillestrøm climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -2.0°C-6.9°C | -6.9°C | 65 | 10.4 | 6.87 h |
| February | -0.7°C-6.5°C | -6.5°C | 49 | 8.3 | 9.19 h |
| March, selected | 3.6°C-3.5°C | -3.5°C | 49 | 8.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 9.4°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 53 | 9.0 | 14.515 h |
| May | 15.1°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 74 | 11.5 | 17.117 h |
| June | 18.8°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 91 | 11.9 | 18.719 h |
| July | 21.0°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 94 | 12.6 | 18.018 h |
| August | 19.6°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 104 | 13.5 | 15.616 h |
| September | 15.0°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 81 | 10.4 | 13.013 h |
| October | 8.5°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 84 | 11.4 | 10.210 h |
| November | 3.3°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 84 | 11.6 | 7.68 h |
| December | -0.7°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 66 | 10.8 | 6.16 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
- Oslo in MarchNorway · 18 kmHigh 4.0°C · Low -3.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Drammen in MarchNorway · 53 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -3.2°C · 57 mm rain
- Fredrikstad in MarchNorway · 82 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low -0.8°C · 45 mm rain
- Örebro in MarchSweden · 246 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low -2.4°C · 32 mm rain
- Gothenburg in MarchSweden · 256 kmHigh 5.5°C · Low -0.6°C · 49 mm rain
- Kristiansand in MarchNorway · 266 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low 0.4°C · 86 mm rain
- Borås in MarchSweden · 271 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -1.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Jönköping in MarchSweden · 301 kmHigh 4.1°C · Low -1.5°C · 37 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 Lillestrøm) is explained once on the Lillestrøm year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.