Climate averages 1991–2020
Sheffield 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 Sheffield: daytime highs average 9.5°C and nights cool to about 3.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 12 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 Rotherham (9 km away). In March its highs average 9.7°C, about as warm as Sheffield, with 49 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Sheffield ranks joint 79th of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 107th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; Sheffield is level with that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 12.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 57 mm to 63 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
Sheffield climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.7°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 62 | 12.9 | 8.18 h |
| February | 7.3°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 56 | 11.7 | 9.810 h |
| March, selected | 9.5°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 57 | 12.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.2°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 63 | 12.4 | 14.014 h |
| May | 15.2°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 63 | 12.2 | 15.816 h |
| June | 17.9°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 78 | 12.8 | 16.917 h |
| July | 20.0°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 75 | 13.3 | 16.516 h |
| August | 19.6°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 79 | 13.0 | 14.815 h |
| September | 17.1°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 63 | 10.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.3°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 68 | 12.7 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.4°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 68 | 12.9 | 8.79 h |
| December | 6.9°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 70 | 13.1 | 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
- Rotherham in MarchUnited Kingdom · 9 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 3.0°C · 49 mm rain
- Chesterfield in MarchUnited Kingdom · 15 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 2.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Barnsley in MarchUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 2.3°C · 57 mm rain
- High Peak in MarchUnited Kingdom · 25 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 1.6°C · 71 mm rain
- Doncaster in MarchUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 2.7°C · 49 mm rain
- Mansfield in MarchUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 2.3°C · 49 mm rain
- Wakefield in MarchUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 2.6°C · 53 mm rain
- Huddersfield in MarchUnited Kingdom · 36 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 Sheffield) is explained once on the Sheffield year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Barnsley lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.