Climate averages 1991–2020
Hikone weather
in April.
A mild, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Hikone: daytime highs average 16.3°C and nights cool to about 7.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 140 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 03 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nagahama (15 km away). In April its highs average 16.6°C, about as warm as Hikone, with 152 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Hikone ranks joint 217th of 303 for the warmest April highs and 224th of 303 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 303 cities is 16.7°C; Hikone is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.8°C to 21.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 140 mm to 170 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Hikone climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.7°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 74 | 11.3 | 10.110 h |
| February | 7.4°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 77 | 11.1 | 10.911 h |
| March | 11.0°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 124 | 12.6 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 16.3°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 140 | 12.0 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.0°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 170 | 12.0 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.6°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 216 | 14.9 | 14.514 h |
| July | 28.3°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 256 | 17.8 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.7°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 163 | 15.5 | 13.513 h |
| September | 25.8°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 212 | 13.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.3°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 166 | 10.8 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.8°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 86 | 8.6 | 10.310 h |
| December | 9.3°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 72 | 10.4 | 9.810 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
April in nearby cities
- Nagahama in AprilJapan · 15 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 7.5°C · 152 mm rain
- Youkaichi in AprilJapan · 16 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 7.4°C · 133 mm rain
- Ōmihachiman in AprilJapan · 19 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 7.4°C · 123 mm rain
- Kōka in AprilJapan · 31 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 7.4°C · 133 mm rain
- Moriyama in AprilJapan · 32 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 7.5°C · 119 mm rain
- Ōgaki in AprilJapan · 35 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 7.1°C · 150 mm rain
- Kusatsu in AprilJapan · 37 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 7.6°C · 119 mm rain
- Kuwana in AprilJapan · 44 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 7.5°C · 127 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 Hikone) is explained once on the Hikone year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.