Weather in Jackson in March

A good month. March works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 19.5 °C, lows 8 °C, and rain falls on 11 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 4 of 12 in Jackson: past the worst of the year but short of October, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 11 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average March reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 28.9 °C and the coldest night fell to -8.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 106 mm — roughly 77% of the month's rain in one day.

March is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest March on record still delivered 284 mm against 22 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 137 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 3.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 4.5 °C warmer than February, and April adds another 4.2 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in March

11.9 hours of daylight, gaining 1 hours across the month. That is between Jackson's extremes of 14.3 and 10.1 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 31.6 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

March in Jackson versus nearby

If Jackson is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Baton Rouge is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.5 °C warmer, 1 day less rain. New Orleans is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain.

So: March works, with October the better month by 8 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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