Climate averages 1991–2020
Fresno weather
in March.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 10th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Fresno: daytime highs average 19.4°C and nights cool to about 7.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 74 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Clovis (11 km away). In March its highs average 19.0°C, about as warm as Fresno, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Fresno ranks joint 137th of 498 for the warmest March highs and joint 245th of 498 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 498 cities is 14.9°C; Fresno is 4.5°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 23.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 74 mm to 35 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
Fresno climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.5°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 89 | 7.5 | 10.010 h |
| February | 16.4°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 75 | 8.1 | 10.811 h |
| March, selected | 19.4°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 74 | 7.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.0°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 35 | 4.4 | 13.113 h |
| May | 28.2°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 17 | 2.7 | 14.114 h |
| June | 33.3°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 4.8 | 0.6 | 14.615 h |
| July | 36.6°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 1.5 | 0.2 | 14.414 h |
| August | 35.9°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 0.4 | 0.2 | 13.614 h |
| September | 32.6°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 1.8 | 0.5 | 12.512 h |
| October | 26.2°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 22 | 2.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.0°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 36 | 4.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 14.2°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 71 | 6.9 | 9.710 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
- Clovis in MarchUnited States · 11 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 7.1°C · 74 mm rain
- Visalia in MarchUnited States · 63 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 7.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Merced in MarchUnited States · 88 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 7.6°C · 71 mm rain
- Turlock in MarchUnited States · 126 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 7.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Modesto in MarchUnited States · 147 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 7.7°C · 72 mm rain
- Bakersfield in MarchUnited States · 167 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 7.7°C · 48 mm rain
- Salinas in MarchUnited States · 168 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 7.6°C · 73 mm rain
- Manteca in MarchUnited States · 173 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 7.4°C · 65 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 Fresno) is explained once on the Fresno year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Clovis lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.