Climate averages 1991–2020
Tacoma weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Tacoma: daytime highs average 10.7°C and nights cool to about 2.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 132 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 52 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Federal Way (13 km away). In March its highs average 10.3°C, about as warm as Tacoma, with 152 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Tacoma ranks joint 340th of 498 for the warmest March highs and joint 472nd of 498 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 498 cities is 14.9°C; Tacoma is 4.2°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 13.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 132 mm to 99 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
Tacoma climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 165 | 17.1 | 8.99 h |
| February | 8.5°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 115 | 13.5 | 10.210 h |
| March, selected | 10.7°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 132 | 16.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.4°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 99 | 13.5 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.2°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 61 | 10.1 | 15.115 h |
| June | 19.8°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 40 | 7.0 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.0°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 16 | 2.9 | 15.516 h |
| August | 24.3°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 23 | 4.0 | 14.214 h |
| September | 20.8°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 50 | 7.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.7°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 112 | 12.6 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.7°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 184 | 17.0 | 9.49 h |
| December | 6.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 174 | 16.7 | 8.69 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
- Federal Way in MarchUnited States · 13 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.2°C · 152 mm rain
- Auburn in MarchUnited States · 17 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 2.7°C · 152 mm rain
- Kent in MarchUnited States · 21 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.0°C · 139 mm rain
- Renton in MarchUnited States · 31 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.0°C · 139 mm rain
- Seattle in MarchUnited States · 40 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 2.9°C · 139 mm rain
- Bellevue in MarchUnited States · 44 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 2.9°C · 139 mm rain
- Kirkland in MarchUnited States · 51 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.8°C · 139 mm rain
- Everett in MarchUnited States · 83 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 3.1°C · 177 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 Tacoma) is explained once on the Tacoma year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.