Climate averages 1991–2020
Sendai weather
in March.
A cool, moderately 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 Sendai: daytime highs average 8.4°C and nights cool to about -0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 87 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a moderately 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 Natori-shi (11 km away). In March its highs average 8.8°C, about as warm as Sendai, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sendai ranks joint 263rd of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 19th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Sendai is 3.0°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.3°C to 13.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 87 mm to 94 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
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, selected | 8.4°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 87 | 11.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 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
March in nearby cities
- Natori-shi in MarchJapan · 11 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.1°C · 91 mm rain
- Ōsaki in MarchJapan · 37 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -1.3°C · 89 mm rain
- Ishinomaki in MarchJapan · 41 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 2.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Yamagata in MarchJapan · 44 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -3.1°C · 109 mm rain
- Tome in MarchJapan · 55 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -0.7°C · 83 mm rain
- Fukushima in MarchJapan · 67 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low -1.0°C · 90 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in MarchJapan · 76 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low -1.7°C · 87 mm rain
- Yonezawa in MarchJapan · 77 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low -1.8°C · 146 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.