Average Sunshine in Japan for March

The tables below give March averages for the total number of sunny days and hours of sunshine at cities and towns throughout Japan. The count of days is for those with sunshine during at least 40 percent of the time between sunrise and sunset.

You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: Hokkaidō, Tōhoku, Kantō, Chūbu, Kansai, Chūgoku Shikoku, Kyūshū and Okinawa.

The month's totals are long-term historical averages of weather data collected from 1981 to 2010.

Hokkaidō

Total March sunshine
Place Days Hours
Abashiri 19 172
Asahikawa 15 150
Hakodate 17 158
Obihiro 23 218
Sapporo 16 147
Tomakomai 18 166
Wakkanai 14 139

Tōhoku

Average amount of sun in March
Place Days Hours
Aomori 13 131
Fukushima 19 174
Iwaki 20 186
Morioka 18 160
Sendai 19 177

Kantō

Average March sun
Place Days Hours
Chiba 17 160
Hachijo-jima Island 12 122
Maebashi 22 206
Nikko 20 188
Tokyo 17 163
Utsunomiya 20 188
Yokohama 17 160

Chūbu

Number of sunny hours and days in March on average
Place Days Hours
Aikawa, Sado Island 13 132
Gifu 20 188
Hamamatsu 19 191
Kanazawa 14 141
Nagano 18 169
Nagoya 20 189
Niigata 13 128
Shizuoka 18 179

Kansai

Average total sunshine in March
Place Days Hours
Himeji 18 165
Kobe 18 160
Kyoto 16 147
Nara 16 147
Osaka 17 160
Tsu 19 176
Wakayama 19 171

Chūgoku

Amount of sun in March
Place Days Hours
Fukuyama 18 168
Hiroshima 18 169
Kure 19 171
Matsue 14 133
Okayama 19 169
Tottori 13 124
Yamaguchi 16 153

Shikoku

March sunshine averages
Place Days Hours
Kochi 19 184
Matsuyama 18 167
Takamatsu 18 168
Tokushima 18 171

Kyūshū

Total March sunshine
Place Days Hours
Fukuoka 16 150
Kagoshima 15 149
Kumamoto 17 158
Miyazaki 17 176
Nagasaki 16 149
Oita 18 165
Wadomari, Okinoerabu Island 11 109
Yakushima Island Airport 10 107

Okinawa

Average March sunshine
Place Days Hours
Iriomote Island 10 96
Ishigaki Island 11 112
Kume 10 101
Miyakojima 12 112
Nago 10 105
Naha 11 108
Yonaguni Island 8 82
Reference

Japan Meteorological Agency. Historical weather data retrieval.

Japan Sunshine
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