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Geneva in March

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

The numbers

Daily high12°C
Nightly low3°C
Feels like, afternoon9°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more10 · 91 mm
Humidity74%
Sunshine8.7 h/day
Daylight11.9 h/day
Crowds69 / 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 lakefront: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

March: busier than usual. Busiest in August and September; quietest in April.

Geneva in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 3°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 10 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.

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

Before you go

Type C plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Swiss franc. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Switzerland: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

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

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