Climate averages 1991–2020
Minami-Alps 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 Minami-Alps: daytime highs average 11.3°C and nights cool to about 1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 166 mm of rain on roughly 14 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 Kai (9 km away). In March its highs average 11.0°C, about as warm as Minami-Alps, with 125 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Minami-Alps ranks joint 222nd of 303 for the warmest March highs and 285th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Minami-Alps is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.2°C to 17.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 166 mm to 168 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
Minami-Alps climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.3°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 80 | 7.7 | 10.010 h |
| February | 7.3°C-1.9°C | -1.9°C | 95 | 9.3 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 11.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 166 | 14.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.5°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 168 | 14.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.1°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 175 | 14.8 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.8°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 243 | 18.9 | 14.515 h |
| July | 28.3°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 269 | 21.3 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.0°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 192 | 20.9 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.3°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 270 | 18.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.0°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 246 | 15.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.9°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 121 | 10.9 | 10.310 h |
| December | 9.3°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 80 | 8.3 | 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 · 9 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 1.4°C · 125 mm rain
- Kofu in MarchJapan · 11 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 1.4°C · 125 mm rain
- Fujinomiya in MarchJapan · 47 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.8°C · 221 mm rain
- Fuji, Japan in MarchJapan · 54 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 4.9°C · 202 mm rain
- Gotemba in MarchJapan · 55 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 1.7°C · 184 mm rain
- Iida in MarchJapan · 59 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 0.4°C · 171 mm rain
- Saku in MarchJapan · 67 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low -0.9°C · 99 mm rain
- Numazu in MarchJapan · 68 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 5.5°C · 204 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 Minami-Alps) is explained once on the Minami-Alps year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.