Climate averages 1991–2020
Hitachi weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Hitachi: daytime highs average 11.1°C and nights cool to about 3.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 127 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hitachi-Naka (25 km away). In March its highs average 11.5°C, about as warm as Hitachi, with 115 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Hitachi ranks joint 230th of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 195th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Hitachi is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 15.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 127 mm to 125 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
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, selected | 11.1°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 127 | 12.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 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
March in nearby cities
- Hitachi-Naka in MarchJapan · 25 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Mito in MarchJapan · 33 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 3.1°C · 126 mm rain
- Kasama, Japan in MarchJapan · 42 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Iwaki in MarchJapan · 54 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 3.1°C · 125 mm rain
- Ishioka in MarchJapan · 58 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 3.4°C · 110 mm rain
- Mooka in MarchJapan · 60 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 1.3°C · 97 mm rain
- Ōtawara in MarchJapan · 62 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low -0.1°C · 104 mm rain
- Nasushiobara in MarchJapan · 67 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low -0.2°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 Hitachi) is explained once on the Hitachi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.