Climate averages 1991–2020

Dudley weather
in March.

A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 9.3°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 2.3°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 50 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Dudley · average highYear overview

March is a cool month in Dudley: daytime highs average 9.3°C and nights cool to about 2.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 50 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 50 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is West Bromwich (6 km away). In March its highs average 9.3°C, about as warm as Dudley, with 50 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Dudley ranks joint 96th 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; Dudley is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 12.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 50 mm to 56 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -50510152025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

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

Every month, side by side

Dudley climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Dudley, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 6.4°C1.6°C1.6°C5512.38.38 h
February 7.0°C1.3°C1.3°C4710.39.810 h
March, selected 9.3°C2.3°C2.3°C5010.811.812 h
April 12.0°C4.0°C4.0°C5611.913.914 h
May 15.1°C7.0°C7.0°C6111.515.716 h
June 17.9°C10.0°C10.0°C6811.516.717 h
July 19.9°C12.0°C12.0°C6511.816.316 h
August 19.5°C12.0°C12.0°C6211.114.715 h
September 17.0°C9.9°C9.9°C579.812.713 h
October 13.1°C7.3°C7.3°C6711.210.711 h
November 9.1°C4.1°C4.1°C6511.98.89 h
December 6.6°C2.0°C2.0°C6211.87.88 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 Dudley

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 Dudley) is explained once on the Dudley year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Walsall lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.