Climate averages 1991–2020
Niš weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the joint 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Niš: daytime highs average 12.1°C and nights cool to about 1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 55 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 54 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Leskovac (36 km away). In March its highs average 11.9°C, about as warm as Niš, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 13 cities listed in Serbia, Niš ranks joint 5th of 13 for the warmest March highs and 7th of 13 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 13 cities is 11.9°C; Niš is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.4°C to 17.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 55 mm to 61 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Niš climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.8°C-3.5°C | -3.5°C | 43 | 9.3 | 9.49 h |
| February | 7.2°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 40 | 8.4 | 10.510 h |
| March, selected | 12.1°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 55 | 10.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.5°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 61 | 10.2 | 13.413 h |
| May | 22.2°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 62 | 10.9 | 14.715 h |
| June | 26.4°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 55 | 9.5 | 15.315 h |
| July | 28.8°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 42 | 8.1 | 15.115 h |
| August | 29.3°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 32 | 6.3 | 14.014 h |
| September | 24.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 36 | 6.2 | 12.513 h |
| October | 18.1°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 43 | 6.5 | 11.111 h |
| November | 11.8°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 42 | 7.6 | 9.710 h |
| December | 5.7°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 50 | 9.4 | 9.09 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain 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
- Leskovac in MarchSerbia · 36 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 1.3°C · 61 mm rain
- Kruševac in MarchSerbia · 54 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 1.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Pristina in MarchKosovo · 94 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 1.2°C · 59 mm rain
- Mitrovicë in MarchKosovo · 97 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 1.3°C · 61 mm rain
- Kraljevo in MarchSerbia · 108 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 1.0°C · 66 mm rain
- Kragujevac in MarchSerbia · 111 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 1.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Novi Pazar in MarchSerbia · 115 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 0.4°C · 75 mm rain
- Pernik in MarchBulgaria · 122 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low -0.6°C · 54 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 Niš) is explained once on the Niš year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.