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Lyon in March

ok · worth considering

The year in Lyon

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  1. Lyon in January: avoid
  2. Lyon in February: ok
  3. Lyon in March: ok
  4. Lyon in April: sweet spot
  5. Lyon in May: sweet spot
  6. Lyon in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. Lyon in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. Lyon in August: sweet spot, busy
  9. Lyon in September: good
  10. Lyon in October: good
  11. Lyon in November: ok
  12. Lyon in December: avoid
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March at Lyon is 14°C by day and 4°C at night, with 8 rainy days and about 9 hours of sun a day. 14C max, 8 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high14°C
Nightly low4°C
Feels like, afternoon11°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more8 · 67 mm
Humidity72%
Sunshine8.8 h/day
Daylight11.9 h/day
Crowds78 / 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 Place Bellecour, 20 km from the airport (LYS): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

March: about usual. Busiest from June to August; quietest in January, February and April.

Public holidays in March

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Lyon in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 4°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 8 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 and E plugs at 230 / 400 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for France: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

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

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