Climate averages 1991–2020
Hitachi 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 Hitachi: daytime highs average 15.8°C and nights cool to about 7.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 125 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 06 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hitachi-Naka (25 km away). In April its highs average 15.9°C, about as warm as Hitachi, with 121 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Hitachi ranks joint 240th of 303 for the warmest April highs and joint 160th of 303 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 303 cities is 16.7°C; Hitachi is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.2°C to 20.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 125 mm to 144 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
Hitachi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.3°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 73 | 8.1 | 10.010 h |
| February | 7.9°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 72 | 8.3 | 10.811 h |
| March | 11.1°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 127 | 12.7 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 15.8°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 125 | 12.0 | 13.113 h |
| May | 20.0°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 144 | 12.5 | 14.114 h |
| June | 22.9°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 148 | 14.3 | 14.615 h |
| July | 26.4°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 162 | 14.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 27.8°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 111 | 11.4 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.7°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 174 | 14.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.8°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 211 | 13.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.8°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 108 | 10.1 | 10.310 h |
| December | 9.7°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 72 | 8.7 | 9.710 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
- Hitachi-Naka in AprilJapan · 25 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 8.2°C · 121 mm rain
- Mito in AprilJapan · 33 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 7.7°C · 124 mm rain
- Kasama, Japan in AprilJapan · 42 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 6.6°C · 117 mm rain
- Iwaki in AprilJapan · 54 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 7.7°C · 134 mm rain
- Ishioka in AprilJapan · 58 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 8.4°C · 114 mm rain
- Mooka in AprilJapan · 60 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 6.5°C · 109 mm rain
- Ōtawara in AprilJapan · 62 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 4.9°C · 121 mm rain
- Nasushiobara in AprilJapan · 67 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 4.8°C · 130 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 Hitachi) is explained once on the Hitachi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.