Japan · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Sakakita.

May leads for comfortable weather in Sakakita: typically 23.7°C by day, 9.5°C at night, with 95 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high23.7°C

Typical low9.5°C

Rain in May95 mm

Comfort

May

May · June · September

77climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

68climate match

Outdoors

May

May · October · April

72climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 77 — days reach only 5.1°C, 19° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -6°C.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

55.1° / -6°

Feb

56.6° / -5.8°

Mar

1711.2° / -1.8°

Apr

4818° / 3.4°

May

7723.7° / 9.5°

Jun

7326.4° / 14.8°

Jul

4430.1° / 19.4°

Aug

4831.4° / 20.2°

Sep

6626.2° / 15.6°

Oct

5219.8° / 8.6°

Nov

3714° / 1.9°

Dec

128.1° / -3.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Sakakita — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.1°C	-6°C	30 mm	4.6	9 h 55	5	Good coverage
February	6.6°C	-5.8°C	43 mm	5.2	10 h 48	5	Good coverage
March	11.2°C	-1.8°C	80 mm	7.4	11 h 51	17	Good coverage
April	18°C	3.4°C	85 mm	8.2	13 h 04	48	Good coverage
May	23.7°C	9.5°C	95 mm	7.5	14 h 05	77	Good coverage
June	26.4°C	14.8°C	120 mm	10.1	14 h 38	73	Good coverage
July	30.1°C	19.4°C	169 mm	13.8	14 h 25	44	Good coverage
August	31.4°C	20.2°C	124 mm	8.9	13 h 33	48	Good coverage
September	26.2°C	15.6°C	165 mm	11	12 h 22	66	Good coverage
October	19.8°C	8.6°C	164 mm	8	11 h 12	52	Good coverage
November	14°C	1.9°C	60 mm	5.7	10 h 11	37	Good coverage
December	8.1°C	-3.2°C	40 mm	4.7	9 h 41	12	Good coverage

What has changed

Sakakita runs +1.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+0.6

Feb

+1.5

Mar

+2.4

Apr

+1.1

May

+1.4

Jun

+1.9

Jul

+2.0

Aug

+1.3

Sep

+1.5

Oct

+1.4

Nov

+1.2

Dec

+0.6

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 23.1°C.

Records at MATSUMOTO, 1951–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	18.8°C27 Jan 1969	-20.7°C27 Jan 1954	58 mm15 Jan 1998	99 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 1976	75
February	21.1°C14 Feb 1996	-16.9°C20 Feb 1952	55 mm9 Feb 1985	116 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 2026	75
March	25.9°C18 Mar 1956	-12.9°C1 Mar 1984	50 mm23 Mar 1991	143 mm2018 · driest 1 mm in 1993	75
April	30.9°C13 Apr 1969	-7.6°C6 Apr 1965	75 mm9 Apr 2024	166 mm1951 · driest 0 mm in 2025	75
May	33.6°C27 May 2019	-1.9°C4 May 1957	120 mm21 May 1994	272 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 2025	74
June	37.1°C29 Jun 2022	3.8°C4 Jun 1957	97 mm15 Jun 1970	319 mm1961 · driest 0 mm in 2025	74
July	36.9°C23 Jul 2000	10.7°C4 Jul 1976	172 mm19 Jul 2006	367 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2025	75
August	38.1°C15 Aug 2020	8.0°C20 Aug 1956	135 mm14 Aug 2021	298 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 2025	74
September	36.1°C5 Sep 2010	3.0°C29 Sep 1960	153 mm28 Sep 1983	306 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 2025	74
October	31.8°C3 Oct 1962	-2.6°C31 Oct 1983	133 mm12 Oct 2019	385 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2025	74
November	26.3°C3 Nov 2023	-8.2°C29 Nov 1953	73 mm2 Nov 2024	170 mm2003 · driest 0 mm in 2025	74
December	21.0°C4 Dec 2018	-13.7°C25 Dec 1973	59 mm5 Dec 2004	91 mm1959 · driest 0 mm in 2025	74

Typical days per month at MATSUMOTO, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	15	1
February	0	0	14	1
March	0	0	12	3
April	2	<1	4	2
May	12	2	0	3
June	20	4	0	4
July	27	16	0	4
August	28	21	0	3
September	18	6	0	4
October	3	0	<1	3
November	0	0	6	2
December	0	0	13	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 81); on 2011–2025 it is May (84). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in MATSUMOTO’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	18%	4%	10%	3.2–6.6°C
February	0%	21%	6%	16%	4.1–8.8°C
March	3%	27%	11%	24%	8.4–12.8°C
April	29%	30%	12%	29%	16.0–19.8°C
May	59%	31%	12%	34%	21.3–24.9°C
June	60%	40%	17%	54%	24.0–27.2°C
July	59%	42%	16%	49%	27.2–31.9°C
August	70%	30%	12%	34%	29.0–33.0°C
September	60%	38%	16%	47%	23.5–27.8°C
October	33%	28%	12%	25%	17.6–20.6°C
November	4%	20%	7%	12%	12.0–15.0°C
December	0%	16%	3%	8%	5.9–9.5°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1951Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 41-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 1965.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 11776968
NOAA station: JA000047618 · MATSUMOTO
Station distance: 20 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 15 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.43°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from MATSUMOTO is what differs

Matsumoto→Azumino→Hotaka→Toyoshina→Ōmachi→Ikeda→

Or put two places side by side: Sakakita vs Matsumoto

Best time to visitSakakita.

May

August

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Sakakita runs +1.4°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Sakakita.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Sakakita runs +1.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.