Climate averages 1991–2020
Spijkenisse weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the joint 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Spijkenisse: daytime highs average 9.8°C and nights cool to about 3.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 2nd 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 Vlaardingen (8 km away). In March its highs average 9.6°C, about as warm as Spijkenisse, with 51 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Spijkenisse ranks joint 12th of 44 for the warmest March highs and joint 8th of 44 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 44 cities is 9.5°C; Spijkenisse is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 13.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 52 mm to 46 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
Spijkenisse climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.1°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 61 | 12.1 | 8.38 h |
| February | 6.8°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 52 | 10.9 | 9.910 h |
| March, selected | 9.8°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 52 | 11.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.5°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 46 | 10.8 | 13.814 h |
| May | 16.9°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 59 | 11.8 | 15.616 h |
| June | 19.5°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 61 | 11.1 | 16.617 h |
| July | 21.6°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 75 | 12.9 | 16.216 h |
| August | 21.6°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 76 | 13.1 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.5°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 64 | 11.6 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.4°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 67 | 12.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.8°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 66 | 13.2 | 8.99 h |
| December | 6.6°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 72 | 13.9 | 7.98 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
- Vlaardingen in MarchThe Netherlands · 8 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 3.5°C · 51 mm rain
- Schiedam in MarchThe Netherlands · 9 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 3.4°C · 53 mm rain
- Rotterdam in MarchThe Netherlands · 13 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 3.2°C · 53 mm rain
- Delft in MarchThe Netherlands · 18 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 3.5°C · 51 mm rain
- Dordrecht in MarchThe Netherlands · 24 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 3.0°C · 55 mm rain
- The Hague in MarchThe Netherlands · 26 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 3.8°C · 51 mm rain
- Zoetermeer in MarchThe Netherlands · 26 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 3.4°C · 53 mm rain
- Gouda in MarchThe Netherlands · 32 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 3.2°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 Spijkenisse) is explained once on the Spijkenisse year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.