Climate averages 1991–2020
Winterthur weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Winterthur: daytime highs average 9.9°C and nights cool to about 0.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 82 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 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 Zürich (20 km away). In March its highs average 10.3°C, about as warm as Winterthur, with 98 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Winterthur ranks 4th of 8 for the warmest March highs and 1st of 8 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 8 cities is 9.8°C; Winterthur is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 13.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 82 mm to 85 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
Winterthur climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.5°C-1.9°C | -1.9°C | 79 | 12.3 | 8.99 h |
| February | 5.8°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 69 | 11.3 | 10.210 h |
| March, selected | 9.9°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 82 | 13.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.8°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 85 | 12.5 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.6°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 119 | 15.2 | 15.115 h |
| June | 21.2°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 113 | 14.8 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 106 | 13.7 | 15.616 h |
| August | 23.1°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 107 | 13.0 | 14.314 h |
| September | 18.7°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 91 | 11.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.4°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 83 | 11.6 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.6°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 87 | 12.1 | 9.49 h |
| December | 4.9°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 93 | 13.7 | 8.59 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
- Zürich in MarchSwitzerland · 20 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.1°C · 98 mm rain
- Konstanz in MarchGermany · 38 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 2.1°C · 78 mm rain
- Sankt Gallen in MarchSwitzerland · 50 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low -1.4°C · 100 mm rain
- Luzern in MarchSwitzerland · 60 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 1.2°C · 126 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in MarchGermany · 64 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Vaduz in MarchLiechtenstein · 72 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 0.1°C · 125 mm rain
- Freiburg in MarchGermany · 85 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 2.1°C · 83 mm rain
- Basel in MarchSwitzerland · 87 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.4°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 Winterthur) is explained once on the Winterthur year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.