Climate averages 1991–2020
Leeds 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 Leeds: daytime highs average 9.3°C and nights cool to about 2.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 53 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 Wakefield (13 km away). In March its highs average 9.3°C, about as warm as Leeds, with 53 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Leeds ranks joint 96th of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 98th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; Leeds is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 11.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 53 mm to 58 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
Leeds climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.6°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 60 | 12.7 | 8.08 h |
| February | 7.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 54 | 11.3 | 9.710 h |
| March, selected | 9.3°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 53 | 11.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.9°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 58 | 11.9 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.9°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 56 | 11.6 | 15.916 h |
| June | 17.6°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 71 | 12.1 | 17.017 h |
| July | 19.7°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 67 | 12.5 | 16.517 h |
| August | 19.3°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 72 | 12.0 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.8°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 60 | 10.2 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.2°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 64 | 12.1 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.3°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 64 | 12.7 | 8.69 h |
| December | 6.8°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 67 | 12.7 | 7.58 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
- Wakefield in MarchUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 2.6°C · 53 mm rain
- Bradford in MarchUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 2.3°C · 64 mm rain
- Harrogate in MarchUnited Kingdom · 22 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 1.9°C · 51 mm rain
- Halifax, United Kingdom in MarchUnited Kingdom · 22 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 64 mm rain
- Huddersfield in MarchUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 2.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Barnsley in MarchUnited Kingdom · 28 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 2.3°C · 57 mm rain
- York in MarchUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 2.4°C · 46 mm rain
- Doncaster in MarchUnited Kingdom · 41 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 2.7°C · 49 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 Leeds) is explained once on the Leeds year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Wakefield lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.