Climate averages 1991–2020

Oldham weather
in March.

A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 8.3°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 1.9°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 70 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a cool month in Oldham: daytime highs average 8.3°C and nights cool to about 1.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 49 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Rochdale (9 km away). In March its highs average 8.8°C, about as warm as Oldham, with 74 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Oldham ranks 135th of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 124th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; Oldham is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 11.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 70 mm to 67 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

Oldham climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Oldham, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	5.6°C1.1°C	1.1°C	81	14.4	8.18 h
February	6.2°C0.9°C	0.9°C	72	13.2	9.810 h
March, selected	8.3°C1.9°C	1.9°C	70	13.2	11.812 h
April	11.1°C3.6°C	3.6°C	67	13.3	14.014 h
May	14.1°C6.5°C	6.5°C	68	13.1	15.916 h
June	16.6°C9.4°C	9.4°C	83	14.0	16.917 h
July	18.3°C11.4°C	11.4°C	84	14.9	16.516 h
August	18.0°C11.4°C	11.4°C	88	14.9	14.815 h
September	15.6°C9.3°C	9.3°C	73	12.0	12.813 h
October	12.1°C6.7°C	6.7°C	83	14.1	10.611 h
November	8.3°C3.7°C	3.7°C	81	14.5	8.79 h
December	5.8°C1.5°C	1.5°C	89	14.6	7.68 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 Oldham

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