Climate averages 1991–2020
Himeji 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 Himeji: daytime highs average 12.2°C and nights cool to about 4.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 109 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 Kakogawachō-honmachi (13 km away). In March its highs average 12.3°C, about as warm as Himeji, with 109 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Himeji ranks joint 171st of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 84th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Himeji is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.5°C to 16.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 109 mm to 127 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
Himeji climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.2°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 52 | 7.1 | 10.110 h |
| February | 9.0°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 65 | 7.7 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 12.2°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 109 | 10.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 127 | 10.1 | 13.013 h |
| May | 20.8°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 145 | 10.1 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.0°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 180 | 12.4 | 14.514 h |
| July | 27.5°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 191 | 12.9 | 14.214 h |
| August | 29.0°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 114 | 10.9 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.0°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 202 | 12.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.1°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 151 | 9.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.8°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 77 | 7.3 | 10.410 h |
| December | 10.6°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 64 | 7.3 | 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
- Kakogawachō-honmachi in MarchJapan · 13 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 4.6°C · 109 mm rain
- Tatsuno in MarchJapan · 14 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 4.8°C · 112 mm rain
- Miki in MarchJapan · 26 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 4.2°C · 100 mm rain
- Akashi in MarchJapan · 33 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 4.8°C · 100 mm rain
- Kobe in MarchJapan · 46 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 4.6°C · 111 mm rain
- Sandachō in MarchJapan · 49 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 3.0°C · 112 mm rain
- Nishinomiya in MarchJapan · 59 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 4.1°C · 111 mm rain
- Takarazuka in MarchJapan · 60 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 3.8°C · 111 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 Himeji) is explained once on the Himeji year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kakogawachō-honmachi lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.