Average Precipitation for Tennessee in March

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall plus snowfall during March at cities and towns in Tennessee.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The precipitation totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Eastern, Middle and Western Tennessee.

Eastern Tennessee

Average monthly precipitation in March
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
12 Athens 5.5 140
14 Bristol 4.0 101
11 Chattanooga 5.3 136
14 Cleveland 5.6 141
13 Crossville 5.4 138
11 Dayton 5.3 135
15 Gatlinburg 5.6 142
13 Greeneville 4.0 101
13 Kingsport 4.1 105
13 Knoxville 4.9 124
11 Lookout Mountain 5.6 142
13 Morristown 4.4 113
10 Mountain City 4.1 104
12 Oak Ridge 5.6 141
12 Oneida 5.7 145
12 Sevierville 4.7 119

Middle Tennessee

March averages for total rainfall plus snowfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
10 Cheatham Lake Dam 4.5 115
12 Clarksville 4.8 121
13 Columbia 5.4 138
13 Cookeville 5.5 139
10 Dover 5.2 133
13 Monteagle 6.3 160
13 Murfreesboro 5.3 134
12 Nashville 4.5 115
12 Shelbyville 5.8 147
13 Tullahoma 6.0 153

Western Tennessee

Average amount of rain and snow in March
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
11 Dyersburg 5.9 149
12 Jackson 5.8 146
12 Martin 5.3 135
12 Memphis 5.7 146
12 Savannah 5.6 143
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

Tennessee Precipitation
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