Average Sunshine in Texas for March

Number of Sunny Days

In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in Texas is the total days this month when the sky is mostly clear. This includes the days when cloud covers up to 30% of the sky during daylight hours.

Partly Sunny Days have cloud covering from 40% to 70% of the sky during the daytime.

Total Days With Sun is a sum of the Sunny plus Partly Sunny days. The rest of the days are mainly overcast, with at least 80% cloud cover. All the numbers are annual averages, made from years of weather watching.

Days of sunshine in March
City Sunny
Days
Partly Sunny
Days
Total Days
With Sun
Abilene 11 7 18
Amarillo 12 9 21
Austin City 9 8 17
Brownsville 7 8 15
Corpus Christi 7 8 15
Dallas-Fort Worth 10 8 18
Del Rio 11 8 19
El Paso 15 8 23
Houston 7 6 13
Lubbock 12 9 21
Midland-Odessa 13 8 21
Port Arthur 7 7 14
San Angelo 12 8 20
San Antonio 9 7 16
Victoria 7 7 14
Waco 10 7 17
Wichita Falls 11 8 19

Amount of Sun

Here's another way to look at how much sunshine a city gets. The % Sun number measures the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that sunshine reaches the ground. Again, these amounts are monthly averages based on many years of weather observations.

Percent sunshine for March
City % Sun
Abilene 70
Amarillo 72
Austin City 55
Austin-Bergstrom Airport 55
Brownsville 53
Corpus Christi 54
Dallas-Fort Worth 58
El Paso 86
Galveston 56
Houston 54
Lubbock 73
Midland-Odessa 73
Port Arthur 52
San Antonio 57
Reference

National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.

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