Climate averages 1991–2020
Kōka 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 Kōka: daytime highs average 11.9°C and nights cool to about 2.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 116 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 57 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Youkaichi (16 km away). In March its highs average 11.9°C, about as warm as Kōka, with 116 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kōka ranks joint 198th of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 129th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Kōka is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.4°C to 17.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 116 mm to 133 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
Kōka climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.0°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 62 | 7.5 | 10.110 h |
| February | 8.0°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 69 | 8.7 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 11.9°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 116 | 12.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 133 | 11.4 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.0°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 156 | 11.5 | 14.014 h |
| June | 25.4°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 203 | 14.8 | 14.514 h |
| July | 29.0°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 214 | 17.7 | 14.314 h |
| August | 30.2°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 148 | 14.9 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.3°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 202 | 13.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.6°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 177 | 10.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.1°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 84 | 7.4 | 10.410 h |
| December | 9.5°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 60 | 7.1 | 9.910 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
- Youkaichi in MarchJapan · 16 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 2.5°C · 116 mm rain
- Ōmihachiman in MarchJapan · 17 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 2.6°C · 116 mm rain
- Kusatsu in MarchJapan · 18 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 2.6°C · 110 mm rain
- Moriyama in MarchJapan · 19 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 2.7°C · 110 mm rain
- Iga in MarchJapan · 25 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 2.8°C · 119 mm rain
- Ōtsu in MarchJapan · 27 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 2.3°C · 122 mm rain
- Hikone in MarchJapan · 31 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 2.9°C · 124 mm rain
- Uji in MarchJapan · 34 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.8°C · 122 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 Kōka) is explained once on the Kōka year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Youkaichi lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.