Climate averages 1991–2020
Ishioka 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 Ishioka: daytime highs average 12.3°C and nights cool to about 3.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 110 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a wet month (the 5th 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 Tsuchiura (11 km away). In March its highs average 12.6°C, about as warm as Ishioka, with 113 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Ishioka ranks joint 161st of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 88th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Ishioka is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.0°C to 17.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 110 mm to 114 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
Ishioka climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.9°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 61 | 6.7 | 10.010 h |
| February | 8.9°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 62 | 7.4 | 10.811 h |
| March, selected | 12.3°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 110 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.4°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 114 | 11.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.8°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 140 | 12.5 | 14.114 h |
| June | 24.4°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 152 | 14.9 | 14.615 h |
| July | 28.1°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 171 | 16.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 29.5°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 127 | 13.6 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.8°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 174 | 14.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.5°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 191 | 12.4 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.5°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 91 | 9.5 | 10.310 h |
| December | 10.3°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 60 | 7.4 | 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
- Tsuchiura in MarchJapan · 11 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.2°C · 113 mm rain
- Tsukuba in MarchJapan · 17 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 2.9°C · 106 mm rain
- Kasama, Japan in MarchJapan · 22 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Mito in MarchJapan · 25 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 3.1°C · 126 mm rain
- Ushiku in MarchJapan · 27 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.1°C · 113 mm rain
- Chikusei in MarchJapan · 29 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.0°C · 100 mm rain
- Ryūgasaki in MarchJapan · 32 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 3.5°C · 113 mm rain
- Hitachi-Naka in MarchJapan · 34 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.9°C · 115 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 Ishioka) is explained once on the Ishioka year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.