Climate averages 1991–2020
Bratsk weather
in March.
A freezing month with very little precipitation: the 8th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a freezing month in Bratsk: daytime highs average -5.0°C and nights cool to about -11.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 11 mm of precipitation on roughly 4 days, which makes March a month with very little precipitation (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 48 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ust’-Ilimsk (217 km away). In March its highs average -5.0°C, about as warm as Bratsk, with 19 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Bratsk ranks joint 225th of 236 for the warmest March highs and joint 10th of 236 for the driest March (precipitation, lowest first). The mean March high of those 236 cities is 0.7°C; Bratsk is 5.7°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 8.2°C to 3.2°C, and monthly precipitation rises from 11 mm to 19 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
Bratsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -17.2°C-21.9°C | -21.9°C | 8.4 | 3.0 | 7.68 h |
| February | -13.3°C-18.9°C | -18.9°C | 7.4 | 2.4 | 9.510 h |
| March, selected | -5.0°C-11.8°C | -11.8°C | 11 | 3.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 3.2°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 19 | 5.9 | 14.214 h |
| May | 10.9°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 38 | 10.0 | 16.316 h |
| June | 18.0°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 51 | 9.8 | 17.518 h |
| July | 21.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 58 | 9.5 | 17.017 h |
| August | 19.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 58 | 10.3 | 15.115 h |
| September | 12.0°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 42 | 10.2 | 12.813 h |
| October | 3.6°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 27 | 8.2 | 10.510 h |
| November | -6.4°C-11.3°C | -11.3°C | 20 | 6.4 | 8.38 h |
| December | -14.3°C-19.6°C | -19.6°C | 14 | 5.4 | 7.17 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
- Ust’-Ilimsk in MarchRussia · 217 kmHigh -5.0°C · Low -12.5°C · 19 mm precipitation
- Kansk in MarchRussia · 365 kmHigh -2.7°C · Low -11.9°C · 15 mm precipitation
- Usol’ye-Sibirskoye in MarchRussia · 398 kmHigh -0.4°C · Low -13.0°C · 8.9 mm precipitation
- Angarsk in MarchRussia · 424 kmHigh 0.1°C · Low -12.8°C · 8.4 mm precipitation
- Zelenogorsk in MarchRussia · 435 kmHigh -2.0°C · Low -11.3°C · 17 mm precipitation
- Irkutsk in MarchRussia · 461 kmHigh 0.2°C · Low -12.0°C · 10 mm precipitation
- Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia in MarchRussia · 500 kmHigh -1.7°C · Low -11.2°C · 21 mm precipitation
- Krasnoyarsk in MarchRussia · 538 kmHigh -1.5°C · Low -11.4°C · 17 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 Bratsk) is explained once on the Bratsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.