Average Precipitation for South Carolina in March

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall plus snowfall during March at cities, towns and parks in South Carolina.

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: Coast & Lowcountry, Midlands and Upstate.

Coast & Lowcountry

Average monthly precipitation in March
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
9 Beaufort 3.1 79
8 Brookgreen Gardens 4.1 103
8 Charleston 3.4 85
8 Edisto Island 3.9 99
10 McClellanville 3.9 99
8 Moncks Corner 3.5 89
10 North Myrtle Beach 3.6 91

Midlands

March averages for total rainfall plus snowfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
9 Columbia 3.6 91
9 Florence 3.2 81
9 Orangeburg 3.9 99
9 Sumter 3.7 93

Upstate South Carolina

Average amount of rain and snow in March
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
10 Anderson 4.8 122
11 Caesars Head State Park 5.2 131
9 Calhoun Falls 4.5 115
11 Gaffney 4.7 120
10 Greenville 4.3 108
10 Greenwood 4.2 106
10 Greer 4.5 114
12 Longcreek 5.6 142
10 Ninety Nine Islands Reservoir 4.4 112
10 Spartanburg 4.8 122
Reference

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

South Carolina Precipitation
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