Climate averages 1991–2020
Kanazawa weather
in April.
A mild, wet month: the 7th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Kanazawa: daytime highs average 15.9°C and nights cool to about 5.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 125 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 06 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Matsutō (10 km away). In April its highs average 15.7°C, about as warm as Kanazawa, with 125 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kanazawa ranks joint 237th 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; Kanazawa is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.2°C to 21.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 125 mm to 130 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
Kanazawa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.0°C-2.3°C | -2.3°C | 218 | 24.0 | 10.010 h |
| February | 5.7°C-2.4°C | -2.4°C | 149 | 19.5 | 10.811 h |
| March | 10.1°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 149 | 16.9 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 15.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 125 | 12.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.1°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 130 | 12.5 | 14.114 h |
| June | 24.7°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 160 | 12.5 | 14.615 h |
| July | 28.1°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 215 | 15.5 | 14.414 h |
| August | 29.8°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 145 | 13.0 | 13.614 h |
| September | 25.5°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 197 | 14.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.9°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 159 | 13.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.2°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 172 | 17.3 | 10.310 h |
| December | 8.3°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 230 | 23.0 | 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
- Matsutō in AprilJapan · 10 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 6.5°C · 125 mm rain
- Komatsu in AprilJapan · 26 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 7.6°C · 125 mm rain
- Takaoka in AprilJapan · 39 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 5.8°C · 137 mm rain
- Imizu in AprilJapan · 49 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 5.2°C · 150 mm rain
- Toyama in AprilJapan · 55 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 4.5°C · 150 mm rain
- Fukui-shi in AprilJapan · 69 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.8°C · 150 mm rain
- Takayama in AprilJapan · 77 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 2.9°C · 158 mm rain
- Echizen in AprilJapan · 89 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 7.8°C · 150 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 Kanazawa) is explained once on the Kanazawa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Matsutō and Komatsu lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.