Climate averages 1991–2020

Eastbourne weather
in March.

A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.

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

Average high 9.1°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 5.5°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 50 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a cool month in Eastbourne: daytime highs average 9.1°C and nights cool to about 5.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 50 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 51 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Hastings, United Kingdom (23 km away). In March its highs average 9.7°C, 0.5°C warmer than Eastbourne, with 48 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Eastbourne ranks joint 108th 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; Eastbourne is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 11.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 50 mm to 46 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

Eastbourne climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Eastbourne, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	7.9°C4.9°C	4.9°C	95	14.6	8.59 h
February	7.6°C4.5°C	4.5°C	66	11.6	10.010 h
March, selected	9.1°C5.5°C	5.5°C	50	9.9	11.812 h
April	11.3°C7.2°C	7.2°C	46	9.0	13.814 h
May	14.1°C9.9°C	9.9°C	47	8.5	15.515 h
June	16.6°C12.5°C	12.5°C	45	8.7	16.416 h
July	18.6°C14.8°C	14.8°C	48	8.4	16.016 h
August	19.2°C15.4°C	15.4°C	61	9.5	14.515 h
September	17.6°C13.8°C	13.8°C	66	10.6	12.713 h
October	14.6°C11.4°C	11.4°C	113	14.3	10.811 h
November	11.2°C8.1°C	8.1°C	121	15.8	9.09 h
December	8.7°C5.8°C	5.8°C	109	14.4	8.18 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 Eastbourne

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