Japan · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Matsue.

May leads for comfortable weather in Matsue: typically 23.1°C by day, 13°C at night, with 131 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high23.1°C

Typical low13°C

Rain in May131 mm

Comfort

May

May · October · June

75climate match

Beach

August

August · June · May

54climate match

Outdoors

April

April · October · May

66climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 75 — days reach only 8.3°C, 16° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

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

58.3° / 1.1°

Feb

59.3° / 0.8°

Mar

1413.1° / 2.7°

Apr

4818.5° / 7.4°

May

7523.1° / 13°

Jun

6026.1° / 17.8°

Jul

1529.9° / 22.6°

Aug

3531.6° / 23.6°

Sep

3827.1° / 19.1°

Oct

6822° / 12.7°

Nov

3616.5° / 7.4°

Dec

511.1° / 3°

Monthly climate evidence for Matsue — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 17 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	8.3°C	1.1°C	179 mm	21	14.2°C	10 h 00	5	Good coverage
February	9.3°C	0.8°C	149 mm	17.4	12.7°C	10 h 51	5	Good coverage
March	13.1°C	2.7°C	154 mm	15.9	12.8°C	11 h 52	14	Good coverage
April	18.5°C	7.4°C	124 mm	11.4	14.2°C	13 h 02	48	Good coverage
May	23.1°C	13°C	131 mm	8.6	16.9°C	14 h 01	75	Good coverage
June	26.1°C	17.8°C	178 mm	11.9	20.5°C	14 h 32	60	Good coverage
July	29.9°C	22.6°C	330 mm	15.4	23.9°C	14 h 20	15	Good coverage
August	31.6°C	23.6°C	160 mm	11.1	26.7°C	13 h 30	35	Good coverage
September	27.1°C	19.1°C	275 mm	14.6	25.3°C	12 h 21	38	Good coverage
October	22°C	12.7°C	142 mm	10.2	22.4°C	11 h 14	68	Good coverage
November	16.5°C	7.4°C	146 mm	14.8	19.7°C	10 h 15	36	Good coverage
December	11.1°C	3°C	175 mm	21.2	16.7°C	9 h 46	5	Good coverage

Records at MATSUE, 1951–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	20.6°C15 Jan 2002	-6.9°C20 Jan 1970	64 mm1 Jan 2011	281 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 2026	75
February	24.7°C27 Feb 1954	-8.7°C19 Feb 1977	72 mm4 Feb 1971	285 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 2026	72
March	27.2°C27 Mar 2025	-4.7°C5 Mar 1977	59 mm3 Mar 1966	225 mm1966 · driest 0 mm in 2026	73
April	30.7°C15 Apr 1978	-1.9°C1 Apr 1987	182 mm22 Apr 1994	236 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 2025	75
May	32.4°C26 May 2019	2.4°C1 May 1965	191 mm14 May 1994	377 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2025	75
June	35.1°C28 Jun 2022	9.6°C2 Jun 1981	156 mm25 Jun 1996	493 mm1981 · driest 0 mm in 2023	75
July	37.1°C20 Jul 2018	12.9°C4 Jul 1966	264 mm18 Jul 1964	672 mm1964 · driest 0 mm in 2025	75
August	38.5°C1 Aug 1994	15.3°C31 Aug 1968	191 mm2 Aug 1994	490 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 2025	73
September	36.1°C2 Sep 2010	7.9°C28 Sep 1987	167 mm22 Sep 2000	449 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 2025	73
October	31.9°C6 Oct 2018	3.5°C31 Oct 1968	133 mm14 Oct 1951	358 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 2025	73
November	26.2°C5 Nov 1989	-0.6°C28 Nov 1983	67 mm21 Nov 1980	237 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 2025	70
December	23.2°C4 Dec 2018	-7.5°C31 Dec 1967	75 mm5 Dec 2004	259 mm1961 · driest 0 mm in 2025	74

Typical days per month at MATSUE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	6	5
February	0	0	7	4
March	<1	0	3	4
April	2	0	<1	4
May	10	<1	0	4
June	18	3	0	4
July	26	16	0	5
August	29	21	0	3
September	21	6	0	5
October	4	<1	0	3
November	<1	0	0	4
December	0	0	1	5

How often, not how much — every day in MATSUE’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%	64%	18%	86%	6.3–9.4°C
February	<1%	59%	18%	82%	6.2–10.5°C
March	2%	50%	17%	69%	11.0–13.9°C
April	23%	41%	17%	50%	17.0–19.8°C
May	55%	34%	16%	39%	21.7–24.1°C
June	60%	40%	19%	52%	24.3–27.3°C
July	61%	40%	21%	45%	27.5–32.1°C
August	70%	31%	14%	37%	29.4–33.4°C
September	56%	45%	22%	56%	25.3–28.6°C
October	48%	37%	15%	46%	20.3–22.6°C
November	9%	49%	17%	69%	15.0–17.5°C
December	<1%	59%	18%	84%	8.7–12.3°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 42-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 1980.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 1857550
NOAA station: JA000047741 · MATSUE
Station distance: 4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 15 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.48°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 17 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 MATSUE is what differs

Izumo→Unnan→Hiratachō→Minari→Kisukichō-yumura→Tamayuchō-yumachi→

Or put two places side by side: Matsue vs Izumo

Best time to visitMatsue.

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Matsue.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.