Climate averages 1991–2020
Cherkasy weather
in March.
A cold, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cold month in Cherkasy: daytime highs average 5.3°C and nights cool to about -1.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 51 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kropyvnytskyi (105 km away). In March its highs average 6.8°C, 1.5°C warmer than Cherkasy, with 40 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Cherkasy ranks joint 48th of 59 for the warmest March highs and joint 13th of 59 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 59 cities is 6.3°C; Cherkasy is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 8.0°C to 13.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 39 mm to 37 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Cherkasy climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.2°C-5.2°C | -5.2°C | 34 | 8.1 | 8.79 h |
| February | 0.2°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 31 | 6.8 | 10.110 h |
| March, selected | 5.3°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 39 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.4°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 37 | 8.1 | 13.714 h |
| May | 20.2°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 55 | 9.9 | 15.315 h |
| June | 24.0°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 64 | 10.7 | 16.216 h |
| July | 25.9°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 60 | 9.5 | 15.816 h |
| August | 25.3°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 40 | 6.6 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.2°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 53 | 8.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.2°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 41 | 7.4 | 10.811 h |
| November | 5.1°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 38 | 7.3 | 9.29 h |
| December | 0.4°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 37 | 8.1 | 8.38 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Kropyvnytskyi in MarchUkraine · 105 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low -1.3°C · 40 mm rain
- Kremenchuk in MarchUkraine · 107 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low -1.2°C · 41 mm rain
- Oleksandriya in MarchUkraine · 115 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low -1.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Bila Tserkva in MarchUkraine · 145 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low -1.6°C · 38 mm rain
- Brovary in MarchUkraine · 149 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -1.8°C · 38 mm rain
- Uman in MarchUkraine · 154 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low -1.3°C · 37 mm rain
- Kyiv in MarchUkraine · 157 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low -2.2°C · 39 mm rain
- Poltava in MarchUkraine · 181 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -2.6°C · 43 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 Cherkasy) is explained once on the Cherkasy year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.