Climate averages 1991–2020
Amsterdam weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th 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 Amsterdam: daytime highs average 9.0°C and nights cool to about 3.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 54 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 50 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Amstelveen (8 km away). In March its highs average 9.3°C, about as warm as Amsterdam, with 55 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Amsterdam ranks joint 34th of 44 for the warmest March highs and joint 15th of 44 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 44 cities is 9.5°C; Amsterdam is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 12.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 54 mm to 50 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
Amsterdam climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 63 | 12.4 | 8.38 h |
| February | 6.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 53 | 10.5 | 9.910 h |
| March, selected | 9.0°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 54 | 11.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.7°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 50 | 11.1 | 13.914 h |
| May | 16.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 62 | 11.4 | 15.716 h |
| June | 18.6°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 67 | 11.7 | 16.717 h |
| July | 20.8°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 82 | 13.4 | 16.316 h |
| August | 20.8°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 81 | 12.9 | 14.715 h |
| September | 17.9°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 69 | 11.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 66 | 12.4 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.4°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 61 | 12.4 | 8.89 h |
| December | 6.3°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 69 | 12.9 | 7.88 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
- Amstelveen in MarchThe Netherlands · 8 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 3.3°C · 55 mm rain
- Zaandam in MarchThe Netherlands · 8 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.7°C · 52 mm rain
- Zaanstad in MarchThe Netherlands · 10 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 3.8°C · 52 mm rain
- Purmerend in MarchThe Netherlands · 15 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 3.4°C · 50 mm rain
- Hoofddorp in MarchThe Netherlands · 16 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.7°C · 55 mm rain
- Haarlem in MarchThe Netherlands · 17 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 3.9°C · 52 mm rain
- Almere Stad in MarchThe Netherlands · 22 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 3.0°C · 55 mm rain
- Hilversum in MarchThe Netherlands · 26 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 2.9°C · 55 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 Amsterdam) is explained once on the Amsterdam year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.