Climate averages 1991–2020
Nara-shi 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 Nara-shi: daytime highs average 12.6°C and nights cool to about 2.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 107 mm of rain on roughly 11 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 Yamatokōriyama (9 km away). In March its highs average 12.7°C, about as warm as Nara-shi, with 124 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Nara-shi ranks joint 116th of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 69th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Nara-shi is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.3°C to 18.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 107 mm to 112 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
Nara-shi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.7°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 58 | 6.4 | 10.110 h |
| February | 8.8°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 64 | 7.8 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 12.6°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 107 | 10.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.0°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 112 | 10.4 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.8°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 129 | 10.1 | 14.014 h |
| June | 26.1°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 180 | 12.3 | 14.414 h |
| July | 29.5°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 161 | 13.6 | 14.214 h |
| August | 31.2°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 89 | 9.0 | 13.513 h |
| September | 27.3°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 140 | 10.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.3°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 143 | 9.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.7°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 75 | 7.1 | 10.410 h |
| December | 10.2°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 57 | 6.6 | 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
- Yamatokōriyama in MarchJapan · 9 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 2.9°C · 124 mm rain
- Ikoma in MarchJapan · 10 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 2.4°C · 107 mm rain
- Katano in MarchJapan · 16 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 2.9°C · 107 mm rain
- Jōyō in MarchJapan · 18 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 2.5°C · 107 mm rain
- Kashiba in MarchJapan · 19 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 2.4°C · 124 mm rain
- Kashihara-shi in MarchJapan · 20 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 2.6°C · 124 mm rain
- Hirakata in MarchJapan · 20 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 3.4°C · 107 mm rain
- Yao in MarchJapan · 20 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 3.2°C · 112 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 Nara-shi) is explained once on the Nara-shi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Hirakata, Ikoma and Katano lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.