Climate averages 1991–2020
Cleveland weather
in March.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cold month in Cleveland: daytime highs average 6.1°C and nights cool to about -1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 84 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 54 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Parma, United States (11 km away). In March its highs average 7.0°C, 0.8°C warmer than Cleveland, with 84 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Cleveland ranks joint 461st of 498 for the warmest March highs and joint 290th of 498 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 498 cities is 14.9°C; Cleveland is 8.8°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 7.2°C to 13.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 84 mm to 104 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Cleveland climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.7°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 81 | 12.9 | 9.510 h |
| February | 1.7°C-5.4°C | -5.4°C | 66 | 10.4 | 10.611 h |
| March, selected | 6.1°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 84 | 11.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.3°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 104 | 13.7 | 13.313 h |
| May | 19.7°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 97 | 13.6 | 14.514 h |
| June | 24.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 112 | 13.2 | 15.115 h |
| July | 26.7°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 99 | 12.1 | 14.915 h |
| August | 25.8°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 88 | 11.6 | 13.814 h |
| September | 22.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 85 | 10.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 16.0°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 87 | 11.7 | 11.111 h |
| November | 9.2°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 87 | 12.4 | 9.910 h |
| December | 3.5°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 81 | 12.6 | 9.29 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Parma, United States in MarchUnited States · 11 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -1.9°C · 84 mm rain
- Akron in MarchUnited States · 49 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low -1.8°C · 92 mm rain
- Canton (Ohio), United States in MarchUnited States · 82 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low -1.3°C · 93 mm rain
- Detroit in MarchUnited States · 145 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low -2.7°C · 65 mm rain
- Erie in MarchUnited States · 151 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low -2.4°C · 93 mm rain
- Dearborn in MarchUnited States · 153 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low -2.7°C · 65 mm rain
- Warren in MarchUnited States · 155 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low -3.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Toledo, United States in MarchUnited States · 156 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -2.1°C · 73 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 Cleveland) is explained once on the Cleveland year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Parma, United States lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.