Weather in Volos in March

A good month. March works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs sit at 14.4 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

March ranks 9 of 12 in Volos: past the worst of the year but short of May, 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. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 14.4 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: the day barely swings — 4.5 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 25.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 1.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 55 mm — roughly 104% of the month's rain in one day.

March is moderately variable: 15 mm in the driest year against 200 mm in the wettest, around an average of 53 mm. Roughly two Marchs in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 12.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 2.2 °C warmer than February, and April adds another 2.7 °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 Volos's extremes of 14.9 and 9.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 20.9 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

March in Volos versus nearby

If Volos is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Lárisa is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.3 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Thessaloníki is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: March is a compromise. May is 23 points better and is what Volos is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Volos

See all twelve months in Volos, or where else to go in March.