Climate averages 1991–2020

Iida 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.

Average high 16.3°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 5.9°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 174 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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April is a mild month in Iida: daytime highs average 16.3°C and nights cool to about 5.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 174 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 04 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nakatsugawa (29 km away). In April its highs average 17.1°C, 0.8°C warmer than Iida, with 187 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Iida ranks joint 217th of 303 for the warmest April highs and 282nd of 303 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 303 cities is 16.7°C; Iida is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 4.9°C to 21.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 174 mm to 191 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Iida climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Iida, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 4.0°C-4.5°C-4.5°C9911.810.010 h
February 5.3°C-3.9°C-3.9°C10910.410.911 h
March 9.7°C0.4°C0.4°C17113.111.912 h
April, selected 16.3°C5.9°C5.9°C17412.813.113 h
May 21.2°C11.3°C11.3°C19113.714.014 h
June 24.2°C16.0°C16.0°C26318.014.515 h
July 27.5°C20.1°C20.1°C30820.314.314 h
August 28.8°C20.9°C20.9°C18418.513.513 h
September 25.3°C17.4°C17.4°C22815.512.412 h
October 19.8°C11.3°C11.3°C21012.911.311 h
November 13.8°C5.0°C5.0°C12610.410.310 h
December 7.3°C-0.7°C-0.7°C10012.09.810 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

Distance from Iida

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Iida) is explained once on the Iida year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.