Climate averages 1991–2020
Norwich weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Norwich: daytime highs average 9.6°C and nights cool to about 3.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 45 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 50 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lowestoft (35 km away). In March its highs average 8.2°C, 1.4°C cooler than Norwich, with 48 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Norwich ranks joint 67th of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 45th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; Norwich is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 12.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 45 mm to 43 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
Norwich climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.0°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 50 | 11.8 | 8.28 h |
| February | 7.5°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 42 | 10.2 | 9.810 h |
| March, selected | 9.6°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 45 | 11.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.3°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 43 | 10.5 | 13.914 h |
| May | 15.3°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 51 | 10.7 | 15.716 h |
| June | 18.3°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 63 | 11.4 | 16.817 h |
| July | 20.7°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 65 | 12.2 | 16.316 h |
| August | 20.7°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 67 | 11.6 | 14.715 h |
| September | 18.0°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 58 | 10.4 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.2°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 64 | 11.9 | 10.711 h |
| November | 10.1°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 58 | 12.0 | 8.89 h |
| December | 7.4°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 53 | 11.5 | 7.78 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
- Lowestoft in MarchUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 4.5°C · 48 mm rain
- Ipswich in MarchUnited Kingdom · 64 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 3.8°C · 43 mm rain
- Colchester in MarchUnited Kingdom · 86 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 4.0°C · 43 mm rain
- Cambridge, United Kingdom in MarchUnited Kingdom · 93 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 3.3°C · 43 mm rain
- Peterborough, United Kingdom in MarchUnited Kingdom · 105 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 3.2°C · 43 mm rain
- Chelmsford in MarchUnited Kingdom · 114 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 3.8°C · 39 mm rain
- Harlow in MarchUnited Kingdom · 124 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 3.1°C · 42 mm rain
- Southend-on-Sea in MarchUnited Kingdom · 128 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 4.4°C · 46 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 Norwich) is explained once on the Norwich year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.