Climate averages 1991–2020
Barnaul weather
in March.
A freezing month with light precipitation: the 8th warmest and the joint 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a freezing month in Barnaul: daytime highs average -1.9°C and nights cool to about -10.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 24 mm of precipitation on roughly 7 days, which makes March a month with light precipitation (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 49 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Biysk (135 km away). In March its highs average -0.6°C, 1.3°C warmer than Barnaul, with 25 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Barnaul ranks joint 200th of 236 for the warmest March highs and joint 34th of 236 for the driest March (precipitation, lowest first). The mean March high of those 236 cities is 0.7°C; Barnaul is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 11.0°C to 9.2°C, and monthly precipitation rises from 24 mm to 36 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
Barnaul climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -13.0°C-19.9°C | -19.9°C | 24 | 7.0 | 8.18 h |
| February | -9.8°C-17.5°C | -17.5°C | 20 | 5.9 | 9.810 h |
| March, selected | -1.9°C-10.5°C | -10.5°C | 24 | 6.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 9.2°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 36 | 7.9 | 14.014 h |
| May | 17.8°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 50 | 9.9 | 15.816 h |
| June | 23.2°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 63 | 10.6 | 16.917 h |
| July | 24.7°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 80 | 12.2 | 16.516 h |
| August | 22.7°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 54 | 10.0 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.0°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 44 | 9.6 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.7°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 44 | 9.8 | 10.611 h |
| November | -3.3°C-9.6°C | -9.6°C | 49 | 10.7 | 8.79 h |
| December | -10.0°C-17.0°C | -17.0°C | 38 | 10.2 | 7.68 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
- Biysk in MarchRussia · 135 kmHigh -0.6°C · Low -9.4°C · 25 mm precipitation
- Berdsk in MarchRussia · 160 kmHigh -3.6°C · Low -9.4°C · 23 mm precipitation
- Novosibirsk in MarchRussia · 192 kmHigh -2.6°C · Low -10.1°C · 25 mm precipitation
- Kisilevsk in MarchRussia · 205 kmHigh -1.3°C · Low -10.1°C · 23 mm precipitation
- Kiselëvsk in MarchRussia · 205 kmHigh -1.3°C · Low -10.2°C · 23 mm precipitation
- Belovo in MarchRussia · 206 kmHigh -1.5°C · Low -10.0°C · 21 mm precipitation
- Prokop’yevsk in MarchRussia · 207 kmHigh -1.1°C · Low -9.9°C · 23 mm precipitation
- Leninsk-Kuznetsky in MarchRussia · 215 kmHigh -2.2°C · Low -10.5°C · 25 mm precipitation
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 Barnaul) is explained once on the Barnaul year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.