Climate averages 1991–2020
Shimada weather
in March.
A cool, very 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 Shimada: daytime highs average 12.5°C and nights cool to about 5.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 184 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a very 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 Fujieda (9 km away). In March its highs average 13.0°C, about as warm as Shimada, with 184 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Shimada ranks joint 134th of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 294th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Shimada is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 16.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 184 mm to 193 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
Shimada climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.8°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 88 | 7.2 | 10.110 h |
| February | 9.6°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 111 | 8.5 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 12.5°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 184 | 12.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.5°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 193 | 12.0 | 13.013 h |
| May | 20.4°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 223 | 12.5 | 14.014 h |
| June | 23.2°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 291 | 15.9 | 14.514 h |
| July | 26.8°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 287 | 16.0 | 14.214 h |
| August | 27.9°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 171 | 15.7 | 13.513 h |
| September | 25.2°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 265 | 16.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.7°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 251 | 14.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 16.1°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 147 | 11.1 | 10.410 h |
| December | 11.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 86 | 8.2 | 9.910 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
- Fujieda in MarchJapan · 9 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 5.8°C · 184 mm rain
- Kakegawa in MarchJapan · 16 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 4.7°C · 160 mm rain
- Fukuroi in MarchJapan · 25 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 4.3°C · 160 mm rain
- Shizuoka in MarchJapan · 26 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 5.1°C · 211 mm rain
- Iwata in MarchJapan · 33 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 4.6°C · 148 mm rain
- Hamakita in MarchJapan · 37 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 3.8°C · 148 mm rain
- Hamamatsu in MarchJapan · 43 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 4.4°C · 148 mm rain
- Fujinomiya in MarchJapan · 59 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.8°C · 221 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 Shimada) is explained once on the Shimada year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Fujieda lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.