Climate averages 1991–2020
Kofu weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Kofu: daytime highs average 11.5°C and nights cool to about 1.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 125 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a wet month (the 6th 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 Kai (6 km away). In March its highs average 11.0°C, about as warm as Kofu, with 125 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kofu ranks joint 217th of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 183rd of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Kofu is level with that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.4°C to 17.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 125 mm to 120 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
Kofu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.5°C-2.4°C | -2.4°C | 65 | 6.8 | 10.010 h |
| February | 7.4°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 73 | 8.1 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 11.5°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 125 | 12.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.9°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 120 | 12.6 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.6°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 129 | 12.8 | 14.014 h |
| June | 25.3°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 177 | 16.3 | 14.515 h |
| July | 28.8°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 199 | 17.4 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.5°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 139 | 16.8 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.7°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 185 | 14.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.3°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 186 | 13.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.2°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 85 | 9.2 | 10.310 h |
| December | 9.6°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 60 | 7.4 | 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
- Kai in MarchJapan · 6 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 1.4°C · 125 mm rain
- Minami-Alps in MarchJapan · 11 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 166 mm rain
- Fujinomiya in MarchJapan · 50 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.8°C · 221 mm rain
- Gotemba in MarchJapan · 52 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 1.7°C · 184 mm rain
- Fuji, Japan in MarchJapan · 57 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 4.9°C · 202 mm rain
- Akiruno in MarchJapan · 60 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 2.2°C · 139 mm rain
- Saku in MarchJapan · 62 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low -0.9°C · 99 mm rain
- Sagamihara in MarchJapan · 62 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 2.0°C · 154 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 Kofu) is explained once on the Kofu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kai lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.