Climate averages 1991–2020
Hikone 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 Hikone: daytime highs average 11.0°C and nights cool to about 2.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 124 mm of rain on roughly 13 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 Nagahama (15 km away). In March its highs average 11.2°C, about as warm as Hikone, with 144 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Hikone ranks joint 233rd of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 176th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Hikone is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.3°C to 16.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 124 mm to 140 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
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, selected | 11.0°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 124 | 12.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 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
March in nearby cities
- Nagahama in MarchJapan · 15 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 2.7°C · 144 mm rain
- Youkaichi in MarchJapan · 16 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 2.5°C · 116 mm rain
- Ōmihachiman in MarchJapan · 19 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 2.6°C · 116 mm rain
- Kōka in MarchJapan · 31 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 2.4°C · 116 mm rain
- Moriyama in MarchJapan · 32 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 2.7°C · 110 mm rain
- Ōgaki in MarchJapan · 35 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.1°C · 129 mm rain
- Kusatsu in MarchJapan · 37 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 2.6°C · 110 mm rain
- Kuwana in MarchJapan · 44 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 2.6°C · 114 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.