Climate averages 1991–2020

Burnley weather
in March.

A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 8.6°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 2.0°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 88 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a cool month in Burnley: daytime highs average 8.6°C and nights cool to about 2.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 88 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 49 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Blackburn (17 km away). In March its highs average 8.5°C, about as warm as Burnley, with 84 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Burnley ranks joint 127th of 143 for the warmest March highs and 142nd of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; Burnley is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 11.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 88 mm to 77 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Burnley climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Burnley, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	5.9°C1.3°C	1.3°C	106	15.9	8.08 h
February	6.5°C1.1°C	1.1°C	95	14.1	9.710 h
March, selected	8.6°C2.0°C	2.0°C	88	13.9	11.812 h
April	11.3°C3.7°C	3.7°C	77	13.6	14.014 h
May	14.3°C6.6°C	6.6°C	82	13.6	15.916 h
June	16.8°C9.6°C	9.6°C	95	14.6	17.017 h
July	18.5°C11.5°C	11.5°C	101	16.1	16.517 h
August	18.1°C11.5°C	11.5°C	106	16.0	14.815 h
September	15.9°C9.4°C	9.4°C	89	13.1	12.813 h
October	12.4°C6.8°C	6.8°C	104	15.1	10.611 h
November	8.6°C3.8°C	3.8°C	103	15.9	8.69 h
December	6.2°C1.6°C	1.6°C	118	15.6	7.58 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

Distance from Burnley

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Burnley) is explained once on the Burnley year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.