Average Rainfall for Mississippi in March

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during March at cities, communities and other locations around Mississippi.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month along with information on the number of days with wet weather. The count of days includes those when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The rainfall 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: Gulf Coast, Southern, Central and Northern Mississippi.

Mississippi Gulf Coast

Average monthly precipitation in March
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Biloxi 5.7 145
8 Gulfport 5.5 140
8 Pascagoula 5.1 129
8 Picayune 5.2 132

Southern Mississippi

March averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
9 Hattiesburg 5.9 150
10 Laurel 5.5 139
10 McComb 5.5 140
10 Natchez 6.0 153

Central Mississippi

Average amount of rain in March
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
10 Columbus 5.3 135
10 Greenville 4.7 120
11 Greenwood 4.8 121
10 Jackson 5.7 144
10 Meridian 5.7 144
10 Starkville 5.4 136
8 Vicksburg 4.9 125

Northern Mississippi

Precipitation totals for March
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
10 Clarksdale 5.4 136
10 Corinth City 5.4 138
10 Grenada 5.6 142
11 Holly Springs 6.1 155
12 Oxford 5.6 142
11 Tunica 5.8 147
11 Tupelo 5.4 136
Reference

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

Mississippi Precipitation
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