Climate averages 1991–2020
Niigata weather
in April.
A cool, wet month: the 7th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Niigata: daytime highs average 14.1°C and nights cool to about 6.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 09 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shibata (26 km away). In April its highs average 14.7°C, 0.6°C warmer than Niigata, with 115 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Niigata ranks joint 268th of 303 for the warmest April highs and 17th of 303 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 303 cities is 16.7°C; Niigata is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.3°C to 19.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 90 mm to 99 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Niigata climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.2°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 178 | 26.6 | 9.910 h |
| February | 4.7°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 115 | 21.3 | 10.811 h |
| March | 8.6°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 110 | 18.6 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.1°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 90 | 12.6 | 13.213 h |
| May | 19.4°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 99 | 11.8 | 14.214 h |
| June | 23.1°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 123 | 11.2 | 14.715 h |
| July | 26.6°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 226 | 15.2 | 14.515 h |
| August | 28.3°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 159 | 12.9 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.7°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 146 | 14.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 19.1°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 155 | 15.8 | 11.211 h |
| November | 13.2°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 164 | 19.7 | 10.210 h |
| December | 7.5°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 195 | 25.4 | 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
April in nearby cities
- Shibata in AprilJapan · 26 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 4.8°C · 115 mm rain
- Tsubame in AprilJapan · 30 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 5.5°C · 91 mm rain
- Sanjō in AprilJapan · 35 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 4.9°C · 116 mm rain
- Nagaoka in AprilJapan · 55 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 4.8°C · 94 mm rain
- Kashiwazaki in AprilJapan · 75 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 5.4°C · 104 mm rain
- Aizu-Wakamatsu in AprilJapan · 93 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 3.8°C · 95 mm rain
- Yonezawa in AprilJapan · 94 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 3.2°C · 115 mm rain
- Jōetsu in AprilJapan · 112 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 5.4°C · 97 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 Niigata) is explained once on the Niigata year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.