Climate averages 1991–2020
Heerlen 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 Heerlen: daytime highs average 9.9°C and nights cool to about 2.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 56 mm of rain on roughly 12 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 Aachen (14 km away). In March its highs average 9.5°C, about as warm as Heerlen, with 70 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Heerlen ranks joint 10th of 44 for the warmest March highs and joint 26th of 44 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 44 cities is 9.5°C; Heerlen is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.0°C to 13.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 56 mm to 44 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
Heerlen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 63 | 12.5 | 8.58 h |
| February | 6.4°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 57 | 11.4 | 10.010 h |
| March, selected | 9.9°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 56 | 12.4 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.9°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 44 | 10.2 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.6°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 52 | 11.4 | 15.515 h |
| June | 20.5°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 63 | 11.6 | 16.416 h |
| July | 22.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 70 | 12.5 | 16.016 h |
| August | 22.4°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 67 | 11.2 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 57 | 10.1 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.3°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 59 | 11.0 | 10.811 h |
| November | 9.2°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 61 | 12.4 | 9.09 h |
| December | 5.9°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 72 | 13.7 | 8.08 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
- Aachen in MarchGermany · 14 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 2.3°C · 70 mm rain
- Maastricht in MarchThe Netherlands · 21 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Düren in MarchGermany · 37 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 2.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Liège in MarchBelgium · 40 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.9°C · 64 mm rain
- Hasselt in MarchBelgium · 45 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 2.9°C · 60 mm rain
- Mönchengladbach in MarchGermany · 46 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 2.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Viersen in MarchGermany · 50 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 2.8°C · 61 mm rain
- Venlo in MarchThe Netherlands · 56 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.8°C · 58 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 Heerlen) is explained once on the Heerlen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.