Climate averages 1991–2020
Bern weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Bern: daytime highs average 8.8°C and nights cool to about -0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 84 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 52 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Luzern (66 km away). In March its highs average 9.7°C, 0.9°C warmer than Bern, with 126 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Bern ranks 7th of 8 for the warmest March highs and 3rd of 8 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 8 cities is 9.8°C; Bern is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 12.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 84 mm to 90 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
Bern climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.8°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 80 | 12.8 | 9.09 h |
| February | 4.9°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 73 | 11.7 | 10.310 h |
| March, selected | 8.8°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 84 | 13.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.5°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 90 | 13.6 | 13.614 h |
| May | 16.3°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 117 | 15.4 | 15.015 h |
| June | 19.8°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 106 | 14.7 | 15.816 h |
| July | 21.8°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 104 | 13.5 | 15.515 h |
| August | 21.8°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 101 | 13.3 | 14.214 h |
| September | 17.7°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 88 | 11.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 84 | 11.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.1°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 90 | 12.6 | 9.49 h |
| December | 4.4°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 93 | 13.5 | 8.69 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
- Luzern in MarchSwitzerland · 66 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 1.2°C · 126 mm rain
- Basel in MarchSwitzerland · 69 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Lausanne in MarchSwitzerland · 79 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 2.8°C · 94 mm rain
- Mulhouse in MarchFrance · 90 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 1.7°C · 71 mm rain
- Zürich in MarchSwitzerland · 95 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.1°C · 98 mm rain
- Besançon in MarchFrance · 113 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 2.7°C · 95 mm rain
- Winterthur in MarchSwitzerland · 115 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.8°C · 82 mm rain
- Freiburg in MarchGermany · 120 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 2.1°C · 83 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 Bern) is explained once on the Bern year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.