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Durham in March

ok · worth considering

The year in Durham

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  1. Durham in January: avoid
  2. Durham in February: avoid
  3. Durham in March: ok
  4. Durham in April: good
  5. Durham in May: sweet spot
  6. Durham in June: sweet spot
  7. Durham in July: sweet spot
  8. Durham in August: sweet spot
  9. Durham in September: good
  10. Durham in October: ok
  11. Durham in November: avoid
  12. Durham in December: avoid, busy
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
March at Durham is 10°C by day and 3°C at night, with 9 rainy days and about 7 hours of sun a day. 10C max, 9 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high10°C
Nightly low3°C
Feels like, afternoon6°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more9 · 68 mm
Humidity81%
Sunshine6.8 h/day
Daylight11.9 h/day
Crowds100 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the Market Place, below the cathedral: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

March: quiet. Busiest in December; quietest in January, February, March, June and September.

Public holidays in March

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Durham in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 3°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 9 or so rainy days.
  • Humidity averages 81%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type G plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Pound sterling. Everything for United Kingdom: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Durham: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

March elsewhere

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