Climate averages 1991–2020
Barcelona weather
in March.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Barcelona: daytime highs average 15.3°C and nights cool to about 7.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 40 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Badalona (10 km away). In March its highs average 15.8°C, about as warm as Barcelona, with 40 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Barcelona ranks joint 60th of 93 for the warmest March highs and joint 40th of 93 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 93 cities is 16.4°C; Barcelona is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 17.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 40 mm to 52 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
Barcelona climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12.4°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 40 | 6.1 | 9.610 h |
| February | 13.1°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 36 | 6.3 | 10.611 h |
| March, selected | 15.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 40 | 6.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.3°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 52 | 8.2 | 13.313 h |
| May | 20.6°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 45 | 7.4 | 14.514 h |
| June | 24.5°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 34 | 5.6 | 15.115 h |
| July | 27.2°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 25 | 4.7 | 14.815 h |
| August | 27.4°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 40 | 6.6 | 13.814 h |
| September | 23.9°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 77 | 10.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 20.3°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 90 | 9.9 | 11.111 h |
| November | 15.9°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 60 | 8.0 | 9.910 h |
| December | 13.0°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 41 | 5.7 | 9.29 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
- Badalona in MarchSpain · 10 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.1°C · 40 mm rain
- Sant Boi de Llobregat in MarchSpain · 11 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 8.3°C · 39 mm rain
- Rubí in MarchSpain · 16 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 6.0°C · 43 mm rain
- Sabadell in MarchSpain · 18 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.8°C · 43 mm rain
- Terrassa in MarchSpain · 23 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 5.1°C · 43 mm rain
- Mataró in MarchSpain · 29 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 8.2°C · 47 mm rain
- Manresa in MarchSpain · 47 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 4.7°C · 46 mm rain
- Tarragona in MarchSpain · 82 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 7.4°C · 37 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 Barcelona) is explained once on the Barcelona year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Badalona lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.