Weekly note
Hakodate
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The numbers

Daily high6°C
Nightly low-2°C
Feels like, afternoon2°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more10 · 84 mm
Humidity73%
Sunshine8.5 h/day
Daylight11.9 h/day
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the centre, by the bay, 8 km from the airport (HKD): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

March: quieter than usual. Busiest in April, July and December; quietest in January and September.

Public holidays in March

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Hakodate in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average -2°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 10 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and B plugs at 100 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Yen. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Japan: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Hakodate: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

March elsewhere

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