Climate averages 1991–2020

Akita weather
in March.

A cold, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 6.0°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 0.1°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 119 mm 18 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a cold month in Akita: daytime highs average 6.0°C and nights cool to about 0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 119 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes March a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Yurihonjō (37 km away). In March its highs average 6.1°C, about as warm as Akita, with 134 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Akita ranks 283rd of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 147th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Akita is 5.5°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 5.9°C to 11.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 119 mm to 111 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Akita climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Akita, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Precipitation mm/month	Wet days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	1.6°C-2.6°C	-2.6°C	164	25.6	9.710 h
February	2.2°C-2.6°C	-2.6°C	123	21.2	10.711 h
March, selected	6.0°C0.1°C	0.1°C	119	18.0	11.912 h
April	11.9°C4.7°C	4.7°C	111	14.0	13.213 h
May	17.2°C10.0°C	10.0°C	130	13.4	14.314 h
June	21.4°C14.9°C	14.9°C	136	11.8	14.915 h
July	24.8°C19.5°C	19.5°C	223	15.7	14.715 h
August	26.5°C21.1°C	21.1°C	203	14.8	13.714 h
September	23.0°C17.5°C	17.5°C	190	15.0	12.512 h
October	17.1°C11.4°C	11.4°C	179	15.6	11.211 h
November	10.7°C5.5°C	5.5°C	183	20.1	10.010 h
December	4.6°C0.3°C	0.3°C	199	24.7	9.49 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

March in nearby cities

Distance from Akita

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Akita) is explained once on the Akita year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.