Climate averages 1991–2020
East Kilbride weather
in March.
A cold, 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 cold month in East Kilbride: daytime highs average 7.5°C and nights cool to about 1.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 87 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 48 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Glasgow (12 km away). In March its highs average 8.1°C, 0.6°C warmer than East Kilbride, with 87 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, East Kilbride ranks 142nd of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 140th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; East Kilbride is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 10.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 87 mm to 74 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
East Kilbride climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.2°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 116 | 16.7 | 7.78 h |
| February | 5.8°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 98 | 14.5 | 9.610 h |
| March, selected | 7.5°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 87 | 14.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.1°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 74 | 13.8 | 14.114 h |
| May | 13.2°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 79 | 13.6 | 16.216 h |
| June | 15.4°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 86 | 14.2 | 17.417 h |
| July | 16.9°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 92 | 15.5 | 16.917 h |
| August | 16.6°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 101 | 15.7 | 15.115 h |
| September | 14.4°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 83 | 13.3 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.1°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 110 | 15.5 | 10.510 h |
| November | 7.6°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 105 | 15.9 | 8.48 h |
| December | 5.3°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 115 | 15.8 | 7.17 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
- Glasgow in MarchUnited Kingdom · 12 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 2.1°C · 87 mm rain
- Paisley in MarchUnited Kingdom · 18 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 2.4°C · 92 mm rain
- Edinburgh in MarchUnited Kingdom · 65 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 2.6°C · 59 mm rain
- Dundee, United Kingdom in MarchUnited Kingdom · 108 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 1.8°C · 61 mm rain
- Carlisle in MarchUnited Kingdom · 124 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 2.1°C · 69 mm rain
- Belfast in MarchUnited Kingdom · 171 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 4.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Douglas in MarchIsle of Man · 181 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 5.8°C · 70 mm rain
- Lisburn in MarchUnited Kingdom · 182 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 3.7°C · 62 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 East Kilbride) is explained once on the East Kilbride year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Glasgow lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.