Climate averages 1991–2020
Yekaterinburg 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 Yekaterinburg: daytime highs average -1.5°C and nights cool to about -8.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 25 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 47 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pervouralsk (41 km away). In March its highs average -1.6°C, about as warm as Yekaterinburg, with 27 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Yekaterinburg ranks joint 185th of 236 for the warmest March highs and joint 40th of 236 for the driest March (precipitation, lowest first). The mean March high of those 236 cities is 0.7°C; Yekaterinburg is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 9.1°C to 7.6°C, and monthly precipitation rises from 25 mm to 35 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
Yekaterinburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -11.3°C-16.9°C | -16.9°C | 16 | 4.7 | 7.58 h |
| February | -9.2°C-15.6°C | -15.6°C | 14 | 4.4 | 9.49 h |
| March, selected | -1.5°C-8.9°C | -8.9°C | 25 | 6.4 | 11.812 h |
| April | 7.6°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 35 | 7.5 | 14.214 h |
| May | 15.7°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 57 | 10.5 | 16.416 h |
| June | 20.4°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 74 | 13.2 | 17.718 h |
| July | 22.0°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 85 | 12.9 | 17.217 h |
| August | 19.3°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 72 | 12.8 | 15.215 h |
| September | 13.4°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 51 | 10.0 | 12.813 h |
| October | 5.5°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 42 | 9.1 | 10.410 h |
| November | -4.0°C-8.9°C | -8.9°C | 28 | 7.7 | 8.28 h |
| December | -9.5°C-14.8°C | -14.8°C | 20 | 5.9 | 6.97 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
- Pervouralsk in MarchRussia · 41 kmHigh -1.6°C · Low -8.8°C · 27 mm precipitation
- Asbest in MarchRussia · 54 kmHigh -1.1°C · Low -9.2°C · 25 mm precipitation
- Novoural’sk in MarchRussia · 54 kmHigh -1.5°C · Low -8.7°C · 27 mm precipitation
- Kamensk-Ural’skiy in MarchRussia · 95 kmHigh -0.6°C · Low -8.4°C · 24 mm precipitation
- Ozersk in MarchRussia · 123 kmHigh -1.7°C · Low -7.9°C · 25 mm precipitation
- Nizhny Tagil in MarchRussia · 124 kmHigh -1.2°C · Low -8.4°C · 26 mm precipitation
- Chelyabinsk in MarchRussia · 195 kmHigh -1.4°C · Low -8.9°C · 24 mm precipitation
- Zlatoust in MarchRussia · 197 kmHigh -1.3°C · Low -9.0°C · 28 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 Yekaterinburg) is explained once on the Yekaterinburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.