Weather in Shreveport in March

A good month. March works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 20.1 °C, lows 8.3 °C, and rain falls on 11 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 4 of 12 in Shreveport: past the worst of the year but short of November, 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 31.5 °C and the coldest night fell to -5.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 112 mm — roughly 90% of the month's rain in one day.

March is moderately variable: 19 mm in the driest year against 334 mm in the wettest, around an average of 125 mm. Roughly two Marchs in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 2.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 81%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 4.9 °C warmer than February, and April adds another 4.4 °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 Shreveport's extremes of 14.3 and 10 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 33.9 °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 Shreveport versus nearby

If Shreveport is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Little Rock is the weaker option in March — 2.4 °C cooler, the same number of rain days. Dallas is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain.

So: March is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind November, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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