Climate averages 1991–2020
Ōtawara 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 Ōtawara: daytime highs average 10.0°C and nights cool to about -0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 104 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a 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 Nasushiobara (13 km away). In March its highs average 9.3°C, 0.7°C cooler than Ōtawara, with 111 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Ōtawara ranks joint 243rd of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 59th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Ōtawara is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.7°C to 15.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 104 mm to 121 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
Ōtawara climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 54 | 7.1 | 9.910 h |
| February | 6.2°C-2.6°C | -2.6°C | 54 | 7.6 | 10.811 h |
| March, selected | 10.0°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 104 | 12.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.7°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 121 | 12.4 | 13.113 h |
| May | 20.6°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 142 | 13.4 | 14.114 h |
| June | 23.5°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 163 | 16.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 26.8°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 212 | 19.7 | 14.414 h |
| August | 27.9°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 162 | 16.7 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.0°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 193 | 15.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.6°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 169 | 12.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 13.3°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 80 | 8.4 | 10.210 h |
| December | 8.1°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 51 | 6.8 | 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
- Nasushiobara in MarchJapan · 13 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low -0.2°C · 111 mm rain
- Utsunomiya in MarchJapan · 36 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 0.3°C · 97 mm rain
- Nikkō in MarchJapan · 39 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low -1.8°C · 112 mm rain
- Kanuma in MarchJapan · 44 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 0.4°C · 112 mm rain
- Mooka in MarchJapan · 48 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 1.3°C · 97 mm rain
- Sukagawa in MarchJapan · 56 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -0.6°C · 91 mm rain
- Kasama, Japan in MarchJapan · 58 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Tochigi in MarchJapan · 60 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 1.4°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 Ōtawara) is explained once on the Ōtawara year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.