Weather in Madrid in March

A good month. March works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 15.2 °C, lows 3 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 6 of 12 in Madrid: past the worst of the year but short of September, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 9 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 15.2 °C days and 3 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 6 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 25.7 °C and the coldest night fell to -8.2 °C.

March is moderately variable: 12 mm in the driest year against 147 mm in the wettest, around an average of 48 mm. Roughly two Marchs in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 9.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 73%.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.5 °C warmer than February, and April adds another 3.3 °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 1.3 hours across the month. That is between Madrid's extremes of 15 and 9.3 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 33.5 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

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

March in Madrid versus nearby

If Madrid is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Valladolid is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Zaragoza is a better bet in March — 3 °C warmer, 2 days less rain.

So: March works, with September the better month by 18 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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