Climate averages 1991–2020
Saga 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 Saga: daytime highs average 13.7°C and nights cool to about 5.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 125 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 Kurume (22 km away). In March its highs average 14.0°C, about as warm as Saga, with 128 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Saga ranks joint 27th of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 183rd of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Saga is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.0°C to 18.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 125 mm to 145 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
Saga climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.1°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 61 | 8.0 | 10.210 h |
| February | 10.3°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 79 | 8.4 | 11.011 h |
| March, selected | 13.7°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 125 | 10.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 18.7°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 145 | 10.7 | 13.013 h |
| May | 23.2°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 164 | 10.3 | 13.914 h |
| June | 25.8°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 344 | 15.9 | 14.314 h |
| July | 29.0°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 309 | 17.6 | 14.114 h |
| August | 30.4°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 181 | 14.6 | 13.413 h |
| September | 27.1°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 189 | 12.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.1°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 108 | 7.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.7°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 93 | 8.0 | 10.510 h |
| December | 11.3°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 71 | 7.4 | 10.010 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
- Kurume in MarchJapan · 22 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 4.4°C · 128 mm rain
- Tosu in MarchJapan · 25 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 4.3°C · 128 mm rain
- Ōmuta in MarchJapan · 26 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 6.4°C · 128 mm rain
- Kasuga in MarchJapan · 36 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 4.7°C · 115 mm rain
- Itoshima in MarchJapan · 36 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 6.7°C · 112 mm rain
- Maebaru-chūō in MarchJapan · 37 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 7.1°C · 112 mm rain
- Karatsu in MarchJapan · 39 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 7.1°C · 124 mm rain
- Fukuoka in MarchJapan · 42 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 5.6°C · 115 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 Saga) is explained once on the Saga year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.