March Sunshine Averages for Cities in Europe

The tables below give March averages for the number of hours of sunshine at major cities throughout Europe.

The cities range from Amsterdam to Zurich and from Reykjavík to İstanbul. They are listed alphabetically and you can jump ahead to the section for Amsterdam to Kazan, Lille to Pristina and Reykjavík to Zurich.

Included in this list are Europe's national capitals plus cities with a metropolitan population of over one million people.

The month's totals are averages of historical weather data collected over a long period, in most cases 30 years.

Total March sunshine

City	Hours
Amsterdam, Netherlands	126
Andorra la Vella, Andorra	169
Athens, Greece	183
Barcelona, Spain	200
Belgrade, Serbia	153
Berlin, Germany	122
Birmingham, United Kingdom	98
Brussels, Belgium	114
Bucharest, Romania	138
Budapest, Hungary	133
Chisinau, Moldova	125
Cologne, Germany	108
Copenhagen, Denmark	117
Dublin, Ireland	109
Glasgow, United Kingdom	86
Hamburg, Germany	105
Helsinki, Finland	131
İstanbul, Turkey	143
Kazan, Russia	150

Average amount of sun in March

City	Hours
Lille, France	121
Lisbon, Portugal	208
Ljubljana, Slovenia	128
London, United Kingdom	102
Luxembourg, Luxembourg	118
Lyon, France	170
Madrid, Spain	214
Manchester, United Kingdom	99
Marseille, France	239
Milan, Italy	152
Minsk, Belarus	128
Monaco, Monaco	217
Moscow, Russia	128
Munich, Germany	128
Naples, Italy	158
Nice, France	217
Nizhny & Novgorod, Russia	125
Odessa, Ukraine	125
Oslo, Norway	126
Paris, France	129
Podgorica, Montenegro	170
Prague, Czech Republic	125
Pristina, Kosovo	143

Average March sun

City	Hours
Reykjavík, Iceland	111
Riga, Latvia	126
Rostov-on-Don, Russia	128
Rotterdam, Netherlands	124
Saint Petersburg, Russia	125
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	126
Skopje, Macedonia	161
Sofia, Bulgaria	136
Stockholm, Sweden	135
Tallinn, Estonia	122
Turin, Italy	158
Vaduz, Liechtenstein	124
Valletta, Malta	223
Vienna, Austria	143
Vilnius, Lithuania	117
Zagreb, Croatia	143
Zurich, Switzerland	125