Climate averages 1991–2020
Crawley weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet 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 Crawley: daytime highs average 10.0°C and nights cool to about 3.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 45 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet 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 Purley (25 km away). In March its highs average 10.0°C, about as warm as Crawley, with 45 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Crawley ranks joint 35th of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 45th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; Crawley is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 12.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 45 mm to 49 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
Crawley climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 65 | 11.4 | 8.58 h |
| February | 7.6°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 51 | 9.5 | 10.010 h |
| March, selected | 10.0°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 45 | 9.9 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.8°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 49 | 10.2 | 13.814 h |
| May | 16.0°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 52 | 9.6 | 15.516 h |
| June | 18.7°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 52 | 9.2 | 16.516 h |
| July | 20.9°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 52 | 10.0 | 16.116 h |
| August | 20.6°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 62 | 9.5 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.1°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 50 | 9.2 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.3°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 70 | 11.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 10.3°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 74 | 11.9 | 9.09 h |
| December | 7.6°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 71 | 11.8 | 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
- Purley in MarchUnited Kingdom · 25 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 3.1°C · 45 mm rain
- Sutton in MarchUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 3.2°C · 44 mm rain
- Guildford in MarchUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 3.3°C · 44 mm rain
- Croydon in MarchUnited Kingdom · 31 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 3.4°C · 41 mm rain
- Hove in MarchUnited Kingdom · 31 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 4.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Brighton in MarchUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 4.6°C · 50 mm rain
- Woking in MarchUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 3.3°C · 44 mm rain
- Worthing in MarchUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 4.8°C · 49 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 Crawley) is explained once on the Crawley year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.