Climate averages 1991–2020
Lausanne weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Lausanne: daytime highs average 9.5°C and nights cool to about 2.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 94 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a wet month (the 2nd 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 Geneva (51 km away). In March its highs average 10.8°C, 1.3°C warmer than Lausanne, with 109 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Lausanne ranks 6th of 8 for the warmest March highs and 4th of 8 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 8 cities is 9.8°C; Lausanne is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 13.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 94 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
Lausanne climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.1°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 108 | 12.7 | 9.09 h |
| February | 6.1°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 97 | 11.5 | 10.310 h |
| March, selected | 9.5°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 94 | 12.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.1°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 90 | 12.3 | 13.514 h |
| May | 16.8°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 120 | 13.9 | 15.015 h |
| June | 20.5°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 106 | 12.8 | 15.816 h |
| July | 22.7°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 117 | 12.2 | 15.415 h |
| August | 22.8°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 116 | 12.4 | 14.214 h |
| September | 18.8°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 108 | 11.7 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.9°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 101 | 12.4 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 116 | 13.1 | 9.59 h |
| December | 5.8°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 125 | 13.5 | 8.79 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
- Geneva in MarchSwitzerland · 51 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 2.1°C · 109 mm rain
- Bern in MarchSwitzerland · 79 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low -0.2°C · 84 mm rain
- Besançon in MarchFrance · 94 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 2.7°C · 95 mm rain
- Basel in MarchSwitzerland · 136 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Luzern in MarchSwitzerland · 141 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 1.2°C · 126 mm rain
- Mulhouse in MarchFrance · 147 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 1.7°C · 71 mm rain
- Dijon in MarchFrance · 152 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 2.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Villeurbanne in MarchFrance · 159 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.3°C · 65 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 Lausanne) is explained once on the Lausanne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.