Climate averages 1991–2020
Brighton weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Brighton: daytime highs average 9.6°C and nights cool to about 4.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 50 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 5th 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 Hove (2 km away). In March its highs average 9.6°C, about as warm as Brighton, with 50 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Brighton ranks joint 67th of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 80th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; Brighton is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 12.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 50 mm to 48 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
Brighton climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.7°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 90 | 14.1 | 8.58 h |
| February | 7.7°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 64 | 11.2 | 10.010 h |
| March, selected | 9.6°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 50 | 9.9 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.0°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 48 | 9.3 | 13.814 h |
| May | 14.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 46 | 8.5 | 15.515 h |
| June | 17.5°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 47 | 8.5 | 16.416 h |
| July | 19.6°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 48 | 8.8 | 16.016 h |
| August | 19.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 62 | 9.3 | 14.615 h |
| September | 17.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 67 | 10.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.5°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 108 | 13.9 | 10.811 h |
| November | 10.8°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 116 | 15.3 | 9.09 h |
| December | 8.3°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 103 | 14.1 | 8.08 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
- Hove in MarchUnited Kingdom · 2 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 4.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Worthing in MarchUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 4.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Eastbourne in MarchUnited Kingdom · 31 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 5.5°C · 50 mm rain
- Crawley in MarchUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 3.4°C · 45 mm rain
- Hastings, United Kingdom in MarchUnited Kingdom · 51 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 4.8°C · 48 mm rain
- Guildford in MarchUnited Kingdom · 55 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 3.3°C · 44 mm rain
- Purley in MarchUnited Kingdom · 57 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 3.1°C · 45 mm rain
- Sutton in MarchUnited Kingdom · 58 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 3.2°C · 44 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 Brighton) is explained once on the Brighton year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Hove lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.