Climate averages 1991–2020
Yonezawa weather
in April.
A cool, wet month: the 7th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Yonezawa: daytime highs average 13.1°C and nights cool to about 3.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 115 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes April a wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 09 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fukushima (36 km away). In April its highs average 15.5°C, 2.4°C warmer than Yonezawa, with 99 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Yonezawa ranks joint 278th of 303 for the warmest April highs and joint 101st of 303 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 303 cities is 16.7°C; Yonezawa is 3.6°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 7.0°C to 20.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 115 mm to 116 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Yonezawa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.7°C-4.6°C | -4.6°C | 190 | 24.5 | 9.910 h |
| February | 2.7°C-4.4°C | -4.4°C | 138 | 20.7 | 10.811 h |
| March | 6.2°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 146 | 19.4 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 13.1°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 115 | 15.1 | 13.213 h |
| May | 20.0°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 116 | 14.2 | 14.214 h |
| June | 23.4°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 155 | 15.2 | 14.715 h |
| July | 26.6°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 241 | 19.9 | 14.515 h |
| August | 27.7°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 183 | 17.4 | 13.614 h |
| September | 23.6°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 155 | 15.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 139 | 14.3 | 11.211 h |
| November | 11.3°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 133 | 17.5 | 10.210 h |
| December | 4.7°C-1.6°C | -1.6°C | 181 | 23.2 | 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
April in nearby cities
- Fukushima in AprilJapan · 36 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 4.2°C · 99 mm rain
- Yamagata in AprilJapan · 42 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 2.0°C · 94 mm rain
- Aizu-Wakamatsu in AprilJapan · 49 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 3.8°C · 95 mm rain
- Kōriyama in AprilJapan · 61 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 4.5°C · 95 mm rain
- Shibata in AprilJapan · 69 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 4.8°C · 115 mm rain
- Natori-shi in AprilJapan · 73 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 5.7°C · 100 mm rain
- Sukagawa in AprilJapan · 74 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 4.5°C · 103 mm rain
- Sendai in AprilJapan · 77 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 4.7°C · 94 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 Yonezawa) is explained once on the Yonezawa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.