Climate averages 1991–2020
Melitopol weather
in March.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Melitopol: daytime highs average 8.2°C and nights cool to about 0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 35 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 52 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Berdyansk (108 km away). In March its highs average 5.7°C, 2.5°C cooler than Melitopol, with 40 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Melitopol ranks joint 7th of 59 for the warmest March highs and joint 4th of 59 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 59 cities is 6.3°C; Melitopol is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 7.1°C to 15.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 35 mm to 39 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
Melitopol climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.5°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 32 | 7.7 | 9.09 h |
| February | 3.1°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 28 | 6.0 | 10.310 h |
| March, selected | 8.2°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 35 | 8.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.3°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 39 | 7.6 | 13.614 h |
| May | 21.8°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 44 | 8.5 | 15.015 h |
| June | 26.4°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 45 | 8.4 | 15.816 h |
| July | 29.4°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 35 | 6.2 | 15.515 h |
| August | 29.1°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 31 | 4.8 | 14.214 h |
| September | 22.8°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 33 | 5.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.4°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 28 | 5.4 | 10.911 h |
| November | 7.8°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 32 | 6.2 | 9.49 h |
| December | 3.0°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 35 | 6.9 | 8.69 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
- Berdyansk in MarchUkraine · 108 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low 1.4°C · 40 mm rain
- Nikopol in MarchUkraine · 110 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -0.6°C · 38 mm rain
- Zaporizhzhya in MarchUkraine · 113 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low -0.7°C · 40 mm rain
- Mariupol in MarchUkraine · 166 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 0.7°C · 42 mm rain
- Dnipro in MarchUkraine · 182 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low -1.5°C · 41 mm rain
- Kerch in MarchUkraine · 186 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 3.3°C · 35 mm rain
- Kryvyy Rih in MarchUkraine · 190 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -1.1°C · 41 mm rain
- Pavlohrad in MarchUkraine · 191 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low -1.6°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 Melitopol) is explained once on the Melitopol year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.