Climate averages 1991–2020
Norfolk weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Norfolk: daytime highs average 14.4°C and nights cool to about 4.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 98 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a wet month (the 8th 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 Portsmouth Heights (8 km away). In March its highs average 14.7°C, about as warm as Norfolk, with 98 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Norfolk ranks joint 274th of 498 for the warmest March highs and joint 337th of 498 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 498 cities is 14.9°C; Norfolk is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.4°C to 19.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 98 mm to 84 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
Norfolk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 87 | 9.0 | 9.910 h |
| February | 10.8°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 77 | 9.0 | 10.811 h |
| March, selected | 14.4°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 98 | 10.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.8°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 84 | 9.7 | 13.113 h |
| May | 24.0°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 95 | 10.9 | 14.114 h |
| June | 28.1°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 103 | 11.7 | 14.615 h |
| July | 30.3°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 131 | 15.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 29.2°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 119 | 12.9 | 13.614 h |
| September | 26.1°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 120 | 11.1 | 12.512 h |
| October | 21.1°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 94 | 7.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.4°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 87 | 8.5 | 10.210 h |
| December | 11.3°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 87 | 9.2 | 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
- Portsmouth Heights in MarchUnited States · 8 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 4.8°C · 98 mm rain
- Newport News in MarchUnited States · 20 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 4.9°C · 100 mm rain
- East Hampton in MarchUnited States · 22 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 5.0°C · 101 mm rain
- Virginia Beach in MarchUnited States · 27 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 5.7°C · 101 mm rain
- Suffolk in MarchUnited States · 30 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 5.1°C · 100 mm rain
- Richmond in MarchUnited States · 130 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 3.5°C · 101 mm rain
- Greenville in MarchUnited States · 168 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 6.0°C · 93 mm rain
- Alexandria, United States in MarchUnited States · 228 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.3°C · 98 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 Norfolk) is explained once on the Norfolk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Portsmouth Heights lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.