Climate averages 1991–2020
Rotherham weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Rotherham: daytime highs average 9.7°C and nights cool to about 3.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 49 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 2nd 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 Sheffield (9 km away). In March its highs average 9.5°C, about as warm as Rotherham, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Rotherham ranks joint 57th of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 71st of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; Rotherham is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 12.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 49 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
Rotherham climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.8°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 53 | 12.1 | 8.18 h |
| February | 7.5°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 47 | 10.6 | 9.810 h |
| March, selected | 9.7°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 49 | 10.9 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.4°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 58 | 11.7 | 14.014 h |
| May | 15.5°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 58 | 11.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 18.2°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 74 | 12.2 | 16.917 h |
| July | 20.3°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 69 | 12.1 | 16.516 h |
| August | 19.9°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 73 | 11.9 | 14.815 h |
| September | 17.3°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 58 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.5°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 61 | 11.5 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.6°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 61 | 12.1 | 8.79 h |
| December | 7.0°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 60 | 12.1 | 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
- Sheffield in MarchUnited Kingdom · 9 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 3.0°C · 57 mm rain
- Barnsley in MarchUnited Kingdom · 16 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 2.3°C · 57 mm rain
- Doncaster in MarchUnited Kingdom · 18 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 2.7°C · 49 mm rain
- Chesterfield in MarchUnited Kingdom · 20 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 2.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Wakefield in MarchUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 2.6°C · 53 mm rain
- High Peak in MarchUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 1.6°C · 71 mm rain
- Mansfield in MarchUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 2.3°C · 49 mm rain
- Huddersfield in MarchUnited Kingdom · 37 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 2.7°C · 64 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 Rotherham) is explained once on the Rotherham year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Doncaster lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.