Climate averages 1991–2020
Darlington weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Darlington: daytime highs average 8.7°C and nights cool to about 2.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 47 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 49 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Stockton-on-Tees (16 km away). In March its highs average 9.0°C, about as warm as Darlington, with 46 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Darlington ranks 126th of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 60th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; Darlington is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 11.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 47 mm to 55 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
Darlington climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.0°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 55 | 12.6 | 7.98 h |
| February | 6.7°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 51 | 11.1 | 9.710 h |
| March, selected | 8.7°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 47 | 10.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.2°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 55 | 11.2 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.1°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 51 | 11.4 | 16.016 h |
| June | 16.8°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 65 | 11.8 | 17.217 h |
| July | 19.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 64 | 11.9 | 16.717 h |
| August | 18.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 66 | 11.7 | 14.915 h |
| September | 16.2°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 56 | 9.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.6°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 58 | 11.3 | 10.611 h |
| November | 8.7°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 61 | 11.8 | 8.59 h |
| December | 6.3°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 62 | 12.6 | 7.47 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
- Stockton-on-Tees in MarchUnited Kingdom · 16 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 3.2°C · 46 mm rain
- Middlesbrough in MarchUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 3.3°C · 46 mm rain
- Hartlepool in MarchUnited Kingdom · 28 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 3.4°C · 45 mm rain
- Sunderland in MarchUnited Kingdom · 44 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 2.9°C · 43 mm rain
- Newcastle upon Tyne in MarchUnited Kingdom · 50 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 2.7°C · 43 mm rain
- South Shields in MarchUnited Kingdom · 53 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.3°C · 43 mm rain
- Harrogate in MarchUnited Kingdom · 59 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 1.9°C · 51 mm rain
- York in MarchUnited Kingdom · 70 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 2.4°C · 46 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 Darlington) is explained once on the Darlington year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.