Climate averages 1991–2020
Newcastle upon Tyne weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Newcastle upon Tyne: daytime highs average 8.5°C and nights cool to about 2.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 43 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 48 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is South Shields (12 km away). In March its highs average 8.9°C, about as warm as Newcastle upon Tyne, with 43 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Newcastle upon Tyne ranks joint 130th of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 17th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; Newcastle upon Tyne is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 10.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 43 mm to 51 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
Newcastle upon Tyne climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.2°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 53 | 12.2 | 7.98 h |
| February | 6.7°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 46 | 11.0 | 9.610 h |
| March, selected | 8.5°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 43 | 10.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.7°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 51 | 11.0 | 14.114 h |
| May | 13.5°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 48 | 11.3 | 16.116 h |
| June | 16.2°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 60 | 11.5 | 17.317 h |
| July | 18.5°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 61 | 12.0 | 16.817 h |
| August | 18.2°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 68 | 12.3 | 15.015 h |
| September | 15.9°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 52 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.4°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 58 | 11.8 | 10.511 h |
| November | 8.8°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 62 | 12.5 | 8.58 h |
| December | 6.4°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 59 | 12.4 | 7.37 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
- South Shields in MarchUnited Kingdom · 12 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.3°C · 43 mm rain
- Sunderland in MarchUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 2.9°C · 43 mm rain
- Hartlepool in MarchUnited Kingdom · 41 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 3.4°C · 45 mm rain
- Stockton-on-Tees in MarchUnited Kingdom · 49 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 3.2°C · 46 mm rain
- Darlington in MarchUnited Kingdom · 50 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 2.2°C · 47 mm rain
- Middlesbrough in MarchUnited Kingdom · 50 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 3.3°C · 46 mm rain
- Carlisle in MarchUnited Kingdom · 85 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 2.1°C · 69 mm rain
- Harrogate in MarchUnited Kingdom · 109 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 1.9°C · 51 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 Newcastle upon Tyne) is explained once on the Newcastle upon Tyne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Sunderland and South Shields lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.