Sanming weather in March

In March, Sanming has daytime highs averaging 21 °C, nights around 12 °C, with 16 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

  1. Jan 11°
  2. Feb 13°
  3. Mar 16°
  4. Apr 21°
  5. May 24°
  6. Jun 27°
  7. Jul 29°
  8. Aug 29°
  9. Sep 26°
  10. Oct 22°
  11. Nov 18°
  12. Dec 13°

Daily temperatures through March

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Daily high Daily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 22.7 °C and lows bottom out at 10.1 °C.

How March develops

Averages for the first, middle and last part of the month, from daily 1991–2020 normals. Chance of rain is the share of years in which that calendar day recorded more than 1 mm.

Days Avg high Avg low Chance of rain
1–10 March 19.6 °C 10.7 °C 46 %
11–20 March 21.2 °C 12.8 °C 54 %
21–31 March 22.1 °C 13.6 °C 50 %
0% 50% 100% 1 5 10 15 20 25 30
Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in March. Wettest date over the 30 years: March 20, at 67 %. Single dates are noisy — read the shape, not the spikes.

What to expect

Measure Typical March Share of the month
Days above 25 °C 8.0 of 31 26 %
Days above 30 °C 0.6 of 31 2 %
Days below 0 °C 0 of 31 0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain 16 of 31 50 %

Conditions in March

MeasureAverage
Mean temperature 16 °C
Record high (1991–2020) 32 °C
Record low (1991–2020) 0.3 °C
Relative humidity 83 %
Wind speed 8.6 km/h
Cloud cover 73 %

March compared with the months around it

Month Avg high Rainfall Cloud
January 16.0 °C 64 mm 61 %
February 17.8 °C 82 mm 67 %
March 21.0 °C 157 mm 73 %
April 25.6 °C 179 mm 75 %
May 28.8 °C 227 mm 77 %

See all twelve months for Sanming

QuestionsMarch in Sanming, answered

How warm is Sanming in March?

Daily highs average 21 °C and nights fall to about 12 °C, a spread of 8.6 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes March the 9th warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Sanming in March?

March averages 157 mm of rain, spread over about 16 of the 31 days — 50 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 73 % of the sky.

How long are the days in March?

Sanming averages 12 hours between sunrise and sunset in March. Day length is computed from latitude and date, so it is exact rather than modelled — but it says nothing about how much of that time is sunny.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: daylight hours, beach and comfort scores, monthly rankings, threshold day counts, chance of a wet day by date, ten-day averages within the month. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

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