Climate averages 1991–2020
Zaanstad weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Zaanstad: daytime highs average 8.7°C and nights cool to about 3.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 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 Zaandam (2 km away). In March its highs average 8.9°C, about as warm as Zaanstad, with 52 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Zaanstad ranks joint 40th 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; Zaanstad is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 12.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 52 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
Zaanstad climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.8°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 69 | 13.2 | 8.38 h |
| February | 6.2°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 54 | 11.0 | 9.910 h |
| March, selected | 8.7°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 52 | 10.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.2°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 44 | 10.1 | 13.914 h |
| May | 15.4°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 58 | 10.4 | 15.716 h |
| June | 18.0°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 63 | 11.3 | 16.717 h |
| July | 20.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 79 | 13.0 | 16.316 h |
| August | 20.4°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 90 | 13.3 | 14.715 h |
| September | 17.7°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 84 | 12.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.9°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 88 | 14.1 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.6°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 77 | 14.8 | 8.89 h |
| December | 6.6°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 79 | 14.2 | 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
- Zaandam in MarchThe Netherlands · 2 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.7°C · 52 mm rain
- Amsterdam in MarchThe Netherlands · 10 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 3.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Purmerend in MarchThe Netherlands · 11 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 3.4°C · 50 mm rain
- Haarlem in MarchThe Netherlands · 14 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 3.9°C · 52 mm rain
- Amstelveen in MarchThe Netherlands · 17 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 3.3°C · 55 mm rain
- Hoofddorp in MarchThe Netherlands · 19 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.7°C · 55 mm rain
- Alkmaar in MarchThe Netherlands · 20 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 4.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Almere Stad in MarchThe Netherlands · 29 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 3.0°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 Zaanstad) is explained once on the Zaanstad year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Haarlem and Zaandam lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.