Climate averages 1991–2020
Linköping weather
in March.
A cold, fairly dry month: the joint 8th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cold month in Linköping: daytime highs average 4.7°C and nights cool to about -2.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 46 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Norrköping (38 km away). In March its highs average 4.7°C, about as warm as Linköping, with 29 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Sweden, Linköping ranks joint 7th of 21 for the warmest March highs and joint 5th of 21 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 21 cities is 4.0°C; Linköping is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.9°C to 10.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 30 mm to 37 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
Linköping climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.4°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 38 | 8.7 | 7.27 h |
| February | 1.1°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 32 | 8.0 | 9.39 h |
| March, selected | 4.7°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 30 | 7.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.6°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 37 | 8.1 | 14.414 h |
| May | 15.8°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 52 | 10.1 | 16.817 h |
| June | 19.4°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 71 | 11.7 | 18.218 h |
| July | 21.6°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 77 | 11.6 | 17.618 h |
| August | 20.5°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 69 | 12.4 | 15.415 h |
| September | 15.9°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 53 | 9.5 | 12.913 h |
| October | 9.8°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 53 | 10.3 | 10.310 h |
| November | 4.7°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 48 | 10.1 | 7.98 h |
| December | 1.7°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 45 | 10.3 | 6.57 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
- Norrköping in MarchSweden · 38 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low -1.8°C · 29 mm rain
- Örebro in MarchSweden · 99 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low -2.4°C · 32 mm rain
- Jönköping in MarchSweden · 111 kmHigh 4.1°C · Low -1.5°C · 37 mm rain
- Västerås in MarchSweden · 144 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low -2.7°C · 30 mm rain
- Södertälje in MarchSweden · 145 kmHigh 4.2°C · Low -2.4°C · 30 mm rain
- Huddinge in MarchSweden · 164 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -1.8°C · 30 mm rain
- Haninge in MarchSweden · 168 kmHigh 3.3°C · Low -1.8°C · 30 mm rain
- Stockholm in MarchSweden · 174 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -1.8°C · 30 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 Linköping) is explained once on the Linköping year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.