Climate averages 1991–2020
Mito weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Mito: daytime highs average 11.8°C and nights cool to about 3.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 126 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a wet month (the 7th 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 Hitachi-Naka (9 km away). In March its highs average 11.5°C, about as warm as Mito, with 115 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Mito ranks joint 206th of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 191st of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Mito is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.8°C to 16.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 126 mm to 124 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
Mito climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.7°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 72 | 7.6 | 10.010 h |
| February | 8.5°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 72 | 8.2 | 10.811 h |
| March, selected | 11.8°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 126 | 13.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.6°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 124 | 12.3 | 13.113 h |
| May | 20.7°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 148 | 12.6 | 14.114 h |
| June | 23.4°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 159 | 14.0 | 14.615 h |
| July | 26.9°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 162 | 14.8 | 14.414 h |
| August | 28.3°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 111 | 12.0 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.1°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 176 | 14.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.1°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 212 | 13.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.1°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 106 | 10.5 | 10.310 h |
| December | 10.0°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 71 | 8.5 | 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
March in nearby cities
- Hitachi-Naka in MarchJapan · 9 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Kasama, Japan in MarchJapan · 17 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Ishioka in MarchJapan · 25 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 3.4°C · 110 mm rain
- Hitachi in MarchJapan · 33 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 3.5°C · 127 mm rain
- Tsuchiura in MarchJapan · 36 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.2°C · 113 mm rain
- Mooka in MarchJapan · 40 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 1.3°C · 97 mm rain
- Chikusei in MarchJapan · 42 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.0°C · 100 mm rain
- Tsukuba in MarchJapan · 42 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 2.9°C · 106 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 Mito) is explained once on the Mito year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.