Climate averages 1991–2020
Basildon weather
in March.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 9th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Basildon: daytime highs average 9.8°C and nights cool to about 4.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 50 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Grays (14 km away). In March its highs average 10.2°C, about as warm as Basildon, with 40 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Basildon ranks joint 51st of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 1st of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; Basildon is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 12.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 39 mm to 45 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
Basildon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 49 | 10.8 | 8.48 h |
| February | 7.6°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 42 | 9.4 | 9.910 h |
| March, selected | 9.8°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 39 | 9.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.6°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 45 | 11.1 | 13.814 h |
| May | 15.6°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 50 | 9.7 | 15.616 h |
| June | 18.7°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 52 | 9.5 | 16.617 h |
| July | 21.0°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 52 | 10.3 | 16.116 h |
| August | 20.9°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 58 | 9.9 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.2°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 45 | 8.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.4°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 56 | 10.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 10.3°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 57 | 10.6 | 8.99 h |
| December | 7.7°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 55 | 11.0 | 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
- Grays in MarchUnited Kingdom · 14 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 3.9°C · 40 mm rain
- Southend-on-Sea in MarchUnited Kingdom · 18 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 4.4°C · 46 mm rain
- Chelmsford in MarchUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 3.8°C · 39 mm rain
- Dagenham in MarchUnited Kingdom · 20 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 3.8°C · 40 mm rain
- Gillingham in MarchUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 4.0°C · 39 mm rain
- Bexley in MarchUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 3.7°C · 40 mm rain
- Barking in MarchUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 3.7°C · 41 mm rain
- Ilford in MarchUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 3.7°C · 41 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 Basildon) is explained once on the Basildon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Gillingham lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.