Climate averages 1991–2020

Yamagata weather
in March.

A cold, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 5.6°C Daytime mean, March

Average low -3.1°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 109 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a cold month in Yamagata: daytime highs average 5.6°C and nights cool to about -3.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 109 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes March a 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 Yonezawa (42 km away). In March its highs average 6.2°C, 0.7°C warmer than Yamagata, with 146 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Yamagata ranks joint 286th of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 84th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Yamagata is 5.9°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 7.3°C to 12.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 109 mm to 94 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Yamagata climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Yamagata, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Precipitation mm/month	Wet days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	0.8°C-6.4°C	-6.4°C	126	21.8	9.810 h
February	1.8°C-6.0°C	-6.0°C	91	18.1	10.711 h
March, selected	5.6°C-3.1°C	-3.1°C	109	16.9	11.912 h
April	12.8°C2.0°C	2.0°C	94	13.7	13.213 h
May	19.2°C8.4°C	8.4°C	91	11.9	14.214 h
June	22.6°C13.8°C	13.8°C	119	12.5	14.815 h
July	25.7°C18.4°C	18.4°C	189	17.4	14.515 h
August	26.9°C19.5°C	19.5°C	146	14.8	13.614 h
September	22.8°C15.5°C	15.5°C	125	13.0	12.512 h
October	16.9°C8.7°C	8.7°C	118	12.4	11.211 h
November	10.6°C2.2°C	2.2°C	95	15.3	10.110 h
December	3.9°C-3.0°C	-3.0°C	120	20.0	9.610 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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

Distance from Yamagata

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Yamagata) is explained once on the Yamagata year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.