Average Snowfall for Japan in March

The tables below give monthly averages for snowfall during March at cities and towns in Japan. Each place has a total for the amount of snow it normally gets and for the number of days with snow on the ground.

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

These snowfall statistics are long-term historical averages of weather data collected from 1981 to 2010.

Hokkaidō

Average total snowfall in March

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
30	Abashiri	26.0	66
30	Asahikawa	43.7	111
20	Hakodate	20.9	53
24	Obihiro	16.5	42
30	Sapporo	38.6	98
14	Tomakomai	10.6	27
30	Wakkanai	40.2	102

Tōhoku

March snowfall averages

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
25	Aomori	29.9	76
6	Fukushima	9.4	24
15	Morioka	18.1	46
6	Sendai	5.5	14

Kantō

Average snow for March

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
0	Chiba	0.4	1
2	Maebashi	1.6	4
21	Nikko	44.5	113
1	Tokyo	0.4	1
2	Utsunomiya	2.0	5
1	Yokohama	0.4	1

Chūbu

Average total snowfall in March

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
2	Aikawa, Sado Island	4.3	11
1	Gifu	0.4	1
6	Kanazawa	10.6	27
8	Nagano	10.6	27
0	Nagoya	0.0	0
7	Niigata	7.5	19
0	Shizuoka	0.0	0

Kansai

Average total snowfall in March

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
1	Kobe	0.0	0
1	Kyoto	0.8	2
1	Nara	0.4	1
0	Osaka	0.0	0
0	Tsu	0.4	1
0	Wakayama	0.0	0

Chūgoku

March snowfall averages

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
1	Hiroshima	0.4	1
2	Matsue	3.1	8
0	Okayama	0.4	1
4	Tottori	6.7	17
1	Yamaguchi	0.8	2

Shikoku

Amount of snowfall in March

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
0	Kochi	0.0	0
0	Matsuyama	0.0	0
0	Takamatsu	0.0	0
0	Tokushima	0.0	0

Kyūshū

Average March snowfall

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
0	Fukuoka	0.4	1
0	Kagoshima	0.0	0
0	Kumamoto	0.0	0
0	Miyazaki	0.0	0
0	Nagasaki	0.0	0
0	Oita	0.0	0

Okinawa

Snowfall in March

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
0	Ishigaki Island	0.0	0
0	Miyakojima	0.0	0
0	Naha	0.0	0