Climate averages 1991–2020
Glasgow 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.
March is a cool month in Glasgow: daytime highs average 8.1°C and nights cool to about 2.1°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 Paisley (12 km away). In March its highs average 8.2°C, about as warm as Glasgow, with 92 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Glasgow ranks joint 138th 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; Glasgow is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 10.7°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
Glasgow climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.8°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 116 | 16.7 | 7.78 h |
| February | 6.4°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 98 | 14.5 | 9.510 h |
| March, selected | 8.1°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 87 | 14.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.7°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 74 | 13.8 | 14.114 h |
| May | 13.7°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 79 | 13.6 | 16.316 h |
| June | 16.0°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 86 | 14.2 | 17.517 h |
| July | 17.5°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 92 | 15.5 | 16.917 h |
| August | 17.2°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 101 | 15.7 | 15.115 h |
| September | 15.1°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 83 | 13.3 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.7°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 110 | 15.5 | 10.510 h |
| November | 8.3°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 105 | 15.9 | 8.38 h |
| December | 5.9°C1.4°C | 1.4°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
- Paisley in MarchUnited Kingdom · 12 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 2.4°C · 92 mm rain
- East Kilbride in MarchUnited Kingdom · 12 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 1.5°C · 87 mm rain
- Edinburgh in MarchUnited Kingdom · 67 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 2.6°C · 59 mm rain
- Dundee, United Kingdom in MarchUnited Kingdom · 104 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 1.8°C · 61 mm rain
- Carlisle in MarchUnited Kingdom · 136 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 2.1°C · 69 mm rain
- Belfast in MarchUnited Kingdom · 176 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 4.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Lisburn in MarchUnited Kingdom · 187 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 3.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Douglas in MarchIsle of Man · 191 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 5.8°C · 70 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 Glasgow) is explained once on the Glasgow year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
East Kilbride lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.