Climate averages 1991–2020

York weather
in March.

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

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

Average high 9.4°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 2.4°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 46 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a cool month in York: daytime highs average 9.4°C and nights cool to about 2.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 46 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 49 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Harrogate (30 km away). In March its highs average 8.6°C, 0.9°C cooler than York, with 51 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, York ranks joint 88th of 143 for the warmest March highs and joint 54th of 143 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 143 cities is 9.5°C; York is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 12.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 46 mm to 58 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

York climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for York, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	6.5°C1.5°C	1.5°C	54	11.8	8.08 h
February	7.3°C1.3°C	1.3°C	46	10.1	9.710 h
March, selected	9.4°C2.4°C	2.4°C	46	10.7	11.812 h
April	12.0°C4.0°C	4.0°C	58	11.5	14.014 h
May	14.8°C6.9°C	6.9°C	55	11.5	15.916 h
June	17.6°C9.8°C	9.8°C	71	12.2	17.017 h
July	19.9°C12.1°C	12.1°C	66	11.9	16.617 h
August	19.6°C12.0°C	12.0°C	72	11.5	14.915 h
September	17.0°C9.9°C	9.9°C	57	10.0	12.813 h
October	13.3°C7.2°C	7.2°C	61	11.5	10.611 h
November	9.3°C4.0°C	4.0°C	59	11.2	8.69 h
December	6.6°C1.7°C	1.7°C	58	11.1	7.57 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 York

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