Climate averages 1991–2020
Chelyabinsk weather
in March.
A freezing month with light precipitation: the 8th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a freezing month in Chelyabinsk: daytime highs average -1.4°C and nights cool to about -8.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 24 mm of precipitation on roughly 6 days, which makes March a month with light precipitation (the 4th 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 Kopeysk (13 km away). In March its highs average -1.2°C, about as warm as Chelyabinsk, with 24 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Chelyabinsk ranks joint 180th 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; Chelyabinsk is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 10.7°C to 9.3°C, and monthly precipitation rises from 24 mm to 30 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
Chelyabinsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -11.2°C-17.2°C | -17.2°C | 17 | 5.4 | 7.88 h |
| February | -9.1°C-15.8°C | -15.8°C | 15 | 4.9 | 9.610 h |
| March, selected | -1.4°C-8.9°C | -8.9°C | 24 | 5.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 9.3°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 30 | 7.0 | 14.114 h |
| May | 17.7°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 48 | 8.8 | 16.116 h |
| June | 22.3°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 57 | 10.9 | 17.317 h |
| July | 23.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 76 | 11.6 | 16.817 h |
| August | 21.3°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 71 | 11.4 | 15.015 h |
| September | 15.2°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 43 | 8.5 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.1°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 38 | 9.4 | 10.511 h |
| November | -2.9°C-8.2°C | -8.2°C | 25 | 6.6 | 8.58 h |
| December | -9.2°C-15.2°C | -15.2°C | 21 | 6.0 | 7.37 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
- Kopeysk in MarchRussia · 13 kmHigh -1.2°C · Low -8.8°C · 24 mm precipitation
- Ozersk in MarchRussia · 80 kmHigh -1.7°C · Low -7.9°C · 25 mm precipitation
- Miass in MarchRussia · 85 kmHigh -1.2°C · Low -9.3°C · 25 mm precipitation
- Zlatoust in MarchRussia · 113 kmHigh -1.3°C · Low -9.0°C · 28 mm precipitation
- Troitsk in MarchRussia · 119 kmHigh -0.1°C · Low -9.2°C · 23 mm precipitation
- Kamensk-Ural’skiy in MarchRussia · 142 kmHigh -0.6°C · Low -8.4°C · 24 mm precipitation
- Shadrinsk in MarchRussia · 173 kmHigh -1.7°C · Low -8.7°C · 23 mm precipitation
- Yekaterinburg in MarchRussia · 195 kmHigh -1.5°C · Low -8.9°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 Chelyabinsk) is explained once on the Chelyabinsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.