Climate averages 1991–2020
Sakata weather
in March.
A cold, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cold month in Sakata: daytime highs average 6.6°C and nights cool to about 0.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 126 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes March a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tsuruoka (22 km away). In March its highs average 6.5°C, about as warm as Sakata, with 169 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sakata ranks joint 275th 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; Sakata is 4.9°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.6°C to 13.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 126 mm to 111 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
Sakata climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.4°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 189 | 26.3 | 9.810 h |
| February | 2.9°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 131 | 21.8 | 10.711 h |
| March, selected | 6.6°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 126 | 18.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.2°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 111 | 14.3 | 13.213 h |
| May | 18.8°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 116 | 12.8 | 14.314 h |
| June | 22.7°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 129 | 11.5 | 14.815 h |
| July | 25.9°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 233 | 16.1 | 14.615 h |
| August | 27.4°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 184 | 14.6 | 13.714 h |
| September | 23.8°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 163 | 14.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.9°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 165 | 15.6 | 11.211 h |
| November | 11.8°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 178 | 19.9 | 10.110 h |
| December | 5.6°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 216 | 25.1 | 9.59 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
- Tsuruoka in MarchJapan · 22 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 1.2°C · 169 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in MarchJapan · 55 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.0°C · 134 mm rain
- Yokote in MarchJapan · 75 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -2.6°C · 119 mm rain
- Daisen in MarchJapan · 80 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -2.2°C · 115 mm rain
- Yamagata in MarchJapan · 88 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -3.1°C · 109 mm rain
- Akita in MarchJapan · 92 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 0.1°C · 119 mm rain
- Ōsaki in MarchJapan · 104 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -1.3°C · 89 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in MarchJapan · 111 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low -1.7°C · 87 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 Sakata) is explained once on the Sakata year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.