Climate averages 1991–2020
Kōriyama weather
in March.
A cool, moderately 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 Kōriyama: daytime highs average 8.4°C and nights cool to about -0.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 86 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately 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 Sukagawa (13 km away). In March its highs average 8.6°C, about as warm as Kōriyama, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kōriyama ranks joint 263rd of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 17th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Kōriyama is 3.1°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.4°C to 14.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 86 mm to 95 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
Kōriyama climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.2°C-3.7°C | -3.7°C | 57 | 9.2 | 9.910 h |
| February | 4.2°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 48 | 8.4 | 10.811 h |
| March, selected | 8.4°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 86 | 11.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.9°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 95 | 11.5 | 13.113 h |
| May | 20.1°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 97 | 11.5 | 14.214 h |
| June | 23.4°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 112 | 13.1 | 14.715 h |
| July | 26.6°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 173 | 17.3 | 14.514 h |
| August | 27.8°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 130 | 14.6 | 13.614 h |
| September | 23.7°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 151 | 13.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.9°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 136 | 10.8 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.1°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 66 | 8.1 | 10.210 h |
| December | 6.2°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 49 | 9.3 | 9.610 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
- Sukagawa in MarchJapan · 13 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -0.6°C · 91 mm rain
- Fukushima in MarchJapan · 40 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low -1.0°C · 90 mm rain
- Aizu-Wakamatsu in MarchJapan · 40 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low -1.1°C · 101 mm rain
- Nasushiobara in MarchJapan · 55 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low -0.2°C · 111 mm rain
- Iwaki in MarchJapan · 59 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 3.1°C · 125 mm rain
- Yonezawa in MarchJapan · 61 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low -1.8°C · 146 mm rain
- Ōtawara in MarchJapan · 67 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low -0.1°C · 104 mm rain
- Hitachi in MarchJapan · 92 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 3.5°C · 127 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 Kōriyama) is explained once on the Kōriyama year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.