Climate averages 1991–2020
Iida 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 Iida: daytime highs average 9.7°C and nights cool to about 0.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 171 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 Nakatsugawa (29 km away). In March its highs average 11.3°C, 1.6°C warmer than Iida, with 174 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Iida ranks 248th of 303 for the warmest March highs and 289th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Iida is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.6°C to 16.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 171 mm to 174 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
Iida climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.0°C-4.5°C | -4.5°C | 99 | 11.8 | 10.010 h |
| February | 5.3°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 109 | 10.4 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 9.7°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 171 | 13.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.3°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 174 | 12.8 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.2°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 191 | 13.7 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.2°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 263 | 18.0 | 14.515 h |
| July | 27.5°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 308 | 20.3 | 14.314 h |
| August | 28.8°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 184 | 18.5 | 13.513 h |
| September | 25.3°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 228 | 15.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.8°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 210 | 12.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 13.8°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 126 | 10.4 | 10.310 h |
| December | 7.3°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 100 | 12.0 | 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
- Nakatsugawa in MarchJapan · 29 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 0.5°C · 174 mm rain
- Minami-Alps in MarchJapan · 59 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 166 mm rain
- Kai in MarchJapan · 65 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 1.4°C · 125 mm rain
- Tajimi in MarchJapan · 66 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 1.5°C · 139 mm rain
- Kofu in MarchJapan · 69 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 1.4°C · 125 mm rain
- Kani in MarchJapan · 70 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 1.2°C · 138 mm rain
- Seto in MarchJapan · 73 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 2.0°C · 110 mm rain
- Toyota in MarchJapan · 78 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 2.3°C · 136 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 Iida) is explained once on the Iida year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.