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The driest places in Europe in March: ranked by rainfall

Yakutsk tops the list at 4.2 mm in March. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in March: Yakutsk (4.2 mm) , Chita (4.6 mm) , Ulan-Ude (5.4 mm) . Between first and 50th place the rainfall differs by 26 mm.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Yakutsk Russia 4.2 mm -12 °C -24 °C 4 mm 1 301 h –
2 Chita Russia 4.6 mm -0.6 °C -13 °C 5 mm 1 320 h –
3 Ulan-Ude Russia 5.4 mm -0.09 °C -14 °C 5 mm 2 317 h –
4 Angarsk Russia 9.2 mm -0.06 °C -14 °C 9 mm 3 307 h –
5 Blagoveshchensk Russia 10 mm -0.5 °C -13 °C 10 mm 2 304 h –
6 Irkutsk Russia 11 mm -0.00 °C -13 °C 11 mm 3 307 h –
7 Abakan Russia 11 mm 1.2 °C -9.8 °C 11 mm 3 281 h –
8 Bratsk Russia 11 mm -5.1 °C -13 °C 11 mm 4 267 h –
9 Krasnoyarsk Russia 17 mm -1.6 °C -12 °C 17 mm 5 250 h –
10 Omsk Russia 18 mm -2.7 °C -11 °C 18 mm 5 244 h –
11 Astrakhan Russia 20 mm 7.8 °C -1.3 °C 20 mm 4 252 h –
12 Kurgan Russia 23 mm -1.5 °C -9.9 °C 23 mm 6 246 h –
13 Chelyabinsk Russia 24 mm -1.4 °C -9.3 °C 24 mm 5 250 h –
14 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 24 mm 20 °C 15 °C 24 mm 5 354 h 19 °C
15 Tyumen Russia 24 mm -2.4 °C -10 °C 24 mm 6 239 h –
16 Prokop’yevsk Russia 24 mm -1.3 °C -11 °C 24 mm 7 244 h –
17 Khabarovsk Russia 24 mm -1.6 °C -12 °C 24 mm 5 295 h –
18 Barnaul Russia 25 mm -2.1 °C -11 °C 25 mm 6 251 h –
19 Yekaterinburg Russia 25 mm -1.5 °C -9.3 °C 25 mm 6 225 h –
20 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia 25 mm -0.7 °C -9.0 °C 25 mm 6 236 h –
21 Biysk Russia 25 mm -0.7 °C -10 °C 25 mm 7 265 h –
22 Miass Russia 25 mm -1.2 °C -10.0 °C 25 mm 6 248 h –
23 Severodvinsk Russia 26 mm -2.9 °C -8.4 °C 26 mm 8 196 h -0.8 °C
24 Novosibirsk Russia 26 mm -2.9 °C -11 °C 26 mm 7 236 h –
25 Rubtsovsk Russia 26 mm -0.6 °C -11 °C 26 mm 6 258 h –
26 Almería Spain 26 mm 19 °C 10 °C 26 mm 4 332 h 15 °C
27 Ussuriysk Russia 26 mm 4.2 °C -6.8 °C 26 mm 5 304 h –
28 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia 27 mm -3.7 °C -13 °C 27 mm 6 285 h –
29 Nizhny Tagil Russia 27 mm -1.3 °C -9.0 °C 27 mm 6 212 h –
30 Tomsk Russia 27 mm -3.0 °C -11 °C 27 mm 8 226 h –
31 Makhachkala Russia 27 mm 8.4 °C 3.0 °C 27 mm 6 272 h 5.1 °C
32 Vladivostok Russia 27 mm 1.9 °C -3.5 °C 27 mm 5 307 h 0.1 °C
33 Palma Spain 27 mm 16 °C 10 °C 27 mm 5 330 h 14 °C
34 Magnitogorsk Russia 28 mm -0.9 °C -11 °C 28 mm 6 246 h –
35 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 28 mm -5.7 °C -13 °C 28 mm 8 206 h –
36 Surgut Russia 28 mm -6.2 °C -14 °C 28 mm 7 207 h –
37 Mariehamn Aland Islands 28 mm 1.5 °C -1.7 °C 28 mm 7 229 h 1.3 °C
38 La Laguna Spain 28 mm 16 °C 13 °C 28 mm 5 350 h 19 °C
39 Arkhangel’sk Russia 28 mm -2.5 °C -8.7 °C 28 mm 8 191 h –
40 Limassol Cyprus 28 mm 18 °C 11 °C 28 mm 6 341 h 17 °C
41 Murmansk Russia 29 mm -3.1 °C -9.0 °C 29 mm 8 207 h –
42 Kemerovo Russia 29 mm -2.4 °C -10 °C 29 mm 8 234 h –
43 Cartagena Spain 29 mm 17 °C 11 °C 29 mm 4 325 h 15 °C
44 Zlatoust Russia 29 mm -1.8 °C -9.9 °C 29 mm 7 235 h –
45 Novokuznetsk Russia 29 mm -0.7 °C -10 °C 29 mm 8 244 h –
46 Ulyanovsk Russia 30 mm -1.2 °C -7.4 °C 30 mm 7 223 h –
47 Uppsala Sweden 30 mm 3.9 °C -3.3 °C 30 mm 7 216 h –
48 Zaragoza Spain 30 mm 17 °C 6.2 °C 30 mm 5 311 h –
49 Orsk Russia 30 mm -0.9 °C -9.6 °C 30 mm 7 240 h –
50 Elche Spain 31 mm 19 °C 8.9 °C 31 mm 4 321 h 15 °C

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

February: top 5

  1. Chita 1.7 mm
  2. Yakutsk 2.5 mm
  3. Ulan-Ude 3.1 mm
  4. Angarsk 4.7 mm
  5. Blagoveshchensk 5.0 mm

Full ranking for February

April: top 5

  1. Yakutsk 10 mm
  2. Valletta 15 mm
  3. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 15 mm
  4. Ulan-Ude 15 mm
  5. Chita 15 mm

Full ranking for April

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Total precipitation, in mm, in March, lowest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Europe with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by fewest wet days.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.

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: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.