Climate averages 1991–2020
Sendai weather
in April.
A cool, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Sendai: daytime highs average 13.8°C and nights cool to about 4.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 94 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 10 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Natori-shi (11 km away). In April its highs average 13.7°C, about as warm as Sendai, with 100 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sendai ranks joint 272nd of 303 for the warmest April highs and joint 22nd of 303 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 303 cities is 16.7°C; Sendai is 3.0°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.5°C to 18.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 94 mm to 103 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
Sendai climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.1°C-2.6°C | -2.6°C | 63 | 11.1 | 9.810 h |
| February | 4.9°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 49 | 9.3 | 10.711 h |
| March | 8.4°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 87 | 11.6 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 13.8°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 94 | 11.2 | 13.213 h |
| May | 18.3°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 103 | 11.4 | 14.214 h |
| June | 21.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 129 | 13.4 | 14.815 h |
| July | 24.7°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 187 | 17.3 | 14.515 h |
| August | 26.2°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 169 | 16.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 23.3°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 167 | 14.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.2°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 141 | 11.0 | 11.211 h |
| November | 12.6°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 63 | 9.3 | 10.110 h |
| December | 6.9°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 58 | 11.0 | 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
- Natori-shi in AprilJapan · 11 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 5.7°C · 100 mm rain
- Ōsaki in AprilJapan · 37 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 3.9°C · 97 mm rain
- Ishinomaki in AprilJapan · 41 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 6.6°C · 91 mm rain
- Yamagata in AprilJapan · 44 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 2.0°C · 94 mm rain
- Tome in AprilJapan · 55 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 4.3°C · 88 mm rain
- Fukushima in AprilJapan · 67 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 4.2°C · 99 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in AprilJapan · 76 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 3.5°C · 92 mm rain
- Yonezawa in AprilJapan · 77 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 3.2°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 Sendai) is explained once on the Sendai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.