Average Precipitation for Virginia in March

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall plus snowfall during March at cities and other locations around Virginia.

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: Coastal Virginia in the east, Piedmont or central Virginia, and the Mountains, including the Shenandoah Valley in the northwest and the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia.

Virginia's Mountains

Average monthly precipitation in March
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
13	Abingdon	4.5	113
12	Blacksburg	3.8	96
14	Burkes Garden	4.4	112
9	Galax	3.8	96
12	Harrisonburg	3.2	82
11	Hot Springs	4.3	109
10	Mount Weather	3.7	93
12	Pennington Gap	4.9	123
11	Roanoke	3.5	89
9	Staunton	3.4	87
11	Winchester	3.5	88
15	Wise	4.7	120

Piedmont Virginia

March averages for total rainfall plus snowfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
11	Arlington	3.5	89
11	Charlottesville	4.0	101
10	Danville	4.1	104
9	Fredericksburg	4.0	101
10	John H Kerr Dam	3.9	98
11	Lynchburg	3.8	96
11	Martinsville	4.1	104
10	Petersburg	4.4	111
10	Philpott Lake Dam	3.9	98
11	Richmond	4.0	102

Coastal Virginia

Average amount of rain and snow in March
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
10	Cape Charles	3.5	89
11	Newport News	3.4	85
11	Norfolk	3.7	94
9	North River	3.9	100
11	Painter	4.0	101
11	Suffolk	4.1	103
11	Wallops Island	3.9	99
11	Williamsburg	4.3	108

Average Precipitation for Virginia in March

Virginia's Mountains

Piedmont Virginia

Coastal Virginia

Reference

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