Climate averages 1991–2020
Yokosuka weather
in March.
A cool, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Yokosuka: daytime highs average 12.3°C and nights cool to about 6.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 144 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a wet month (the 8th 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 Yokohama (17 km away). In March its highs average 12.0°C, about as warm as Yokosuka, with 127 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Yokosuka ranks joint 161st of 303 for the warmest March highs and joint 246th of 303 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 303 cities is 11.5°C; Yokosuka is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 16.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 144 mm to 126 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
Yokosuka climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 81 | 7.4 | 10.110 h |
| February | 9.6°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 84 | 8.6 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 12.3°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 144 | 13.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.1°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 126 | 11.6 | 13.113 h |
| May | 19.8°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 138 | 10.9 | 14.014 h |
| June | 22.6°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 182 | 12.9 | 14.514 h |
| July | 25.8°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 147 | 11.5 | 14.314 h |
| August | 27.4°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 107 | 9.8 | 13.513 h |
| September | 25.1°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 185 | 13.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.6°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 222 | 12.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 16.2°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 115 | 10.7 | 10.310 h |
| December | 11.7°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 73 | 8.5 | 9.810 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
- Yokohama in MarchJapan · 17 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 5.6°C · 127 mm rain
- Fujisawa in MarchJapan · 19 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 6.1°C · 164 mm rain
- Chigasaki in MarchJapan · 25 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 6.0°C · 164 mm rain
- Kisarazu in MarchJapan · 26 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 6.0°C · 149 mm rain
- Kawasaki in MarchJapan · 27 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 5.0°C · 127 mm rain
- Hiratsuka in MarchJapan · 30 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 5.5°C · 186 mm rain
- Minamirinkan in MarchJapan · 31 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 3.5°C · 134 mm rain
- Ōta in MarchJapan · 31 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 4.4°C · 127 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 Yokosuka) is explained once on the Yokosuka year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.