Climate averages 1991–2020
Handa weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Handa: daytime highs average 12.9°C and nights cool to about 4.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 107 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nishio (11 km away). In March its highs average 13.0°C, about as warm as Handa, with 120 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Handa ranks joint 79th of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 69th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Handa is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 17.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 107 mm to 116 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Handa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.6°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 53 | 5.6 | 10.110 h |
| February | 9.5°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 62 | 6.5 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 12.9°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 107 | 9.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.6°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 116 | 9.9 | 13.013 h |
| May | 21.8°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 138 | 10.3 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.9°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 178 | 13.4 | 14.514 h |
| July | 28.3°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 186 | 14.7 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.7°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 110 | 12.4 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.6°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 192 | 12.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.4°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 179 | 10.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 16.1°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 84 | 7.2 | 10.410 h |
| December | 10.9°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 56 | 5.6 | 9.910 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain 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
- Nishio in MarchJapan · 11 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 4.3°C · 120 mm rain
- Kariya in MarchJapan · 12 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 3.4°C · 107 mm rain
- Tōkai in MarchJapan · 16 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 3.1°C · 107 mm rain
- Anjō in MarchJapan · 16 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 2.9°C · 107 mm rain
- Okazaki in MarchJapan · 23 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 3.2°C · 136 mm rain
- Gamagōri in MarchJapan · 28 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 4.5°C · 129 mm rain
- Toyota in MarchJapan · 30 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 2.3°C · 136 mm rain
- Yokkaichi in MarchJapan · 30 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 3.2°C · 117 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Handa) is explained once on the Handa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Anjō, Kariya and Tōkai lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.