Climate averages 1991–2020
Zürich weather
in March.
A cool, 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 Zürich: daytime highs average 10.3°C and nights cool to about 1.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 98 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes March a 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 Winterthur (20 km away). In March its highs average 9.9°C, about as warm as Zürich, with 82 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Zürich ranks 3rd of 8 for the warmest March highs and 5th of 8 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 8 cities is 9.8°C; Zürich is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 14.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 98 mm to 106 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
Zürich climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.8°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 92 | 12.9 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.1°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 85 | 11.9 | 10.210 h |
| March, selected | 10.3°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 98 | 14.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.1°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 106 | 13.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.9°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 144 | 16.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 21.4°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 143 | 15.5 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.3°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 146 | 15.4 | 15.516 h |
| August | 23.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 147 | 14.4 | 14.314 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 123 | 12.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.6°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 103 | 12.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.8°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 106 | 13.0 | 9.49 h |
| December | 5.2°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 106 | 14.0 | 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
- Winterthur in MarchSwitzerland · 20 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.8°C · 82 mm rain
- Luzern in MarchSwitzerland · 40 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 1.2°C · 126 mm rain
- Konstanz in MarchGermany · 57 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 2.1°C · 78 mm rain
- Sankt Gallen in MarchSwitzerland · 62 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low -1.4°C · 100 mm rain
- Basel in MarchSwitzerland · 76 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in MarchGermany · 77 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Vaduz in MarchLiechtenstein · 77 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 0.1°C · 125 mm rain
- Freiburg in MarchGermany · 87 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 Zürich) is explained once on the Zürich year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.