Japan · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Kurashiki.

October leads for comfortable weather in Kurashiki: typically 23°C by day, 13.8°C at night, with 104 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23°C

Typical low13.8°C

Rain in October104 mm

Comfort

October

October · May · April

81climate match

Beach

September

September · August · June

70climate match

Outdoors

April

April · November · October

81climate match

The weakest month is February, scoring 24 against October’s 81 — days reach only 10.4°C, 14° 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

259.4° / 0.4°

Feb

2410.4° / 0.7°

Mar

3514° / 3.5°

Apr

6219.8° / 8.9°

May

8025.1° / 14.3°

Jun

5127.9° / 19.2°

Jul

3131.8° / 23.7°

Aug

4033.2° / 24.8°

Sep

5328.7° / 20.3°

Oct

8123° / 13.8°

Nov

5817.2° / 7.8°

Dec

3311.6° / 2.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Kurashiki — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 27 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.4°C	0.4°C	31 mm	3.9	14.3°C	10 h 04	25	Good coverage
February	10.4°C	0.7°C	50 mm	6.7	12.9°C	10 h 53	24	Good coverage
March	14°C	3.5°C	84 mm	8.4	13.3°C	11 h 52	35	Good coverage
April	19.8°C	8.9°C	96 mm	8.4	14.9°C	13 h 00	62	Good coverage
May	25.1°C	14.3°C	107 mm	8.1	17.9°C	13 h 57	80	Good coverage
June	27.9°C	19.2°C	186 mm	10.8	21.6°C	14 h 27	51	Good coverage
July	31.8°C	23.7°C	186 mm	10	25.1°C	14 h 15	31	Good coverage
August	33.2°C	24.8°C	95 mm	6.5	27.5°C	13 h 27	40	Good coverage
September	28.7°C	20.3°C	155 mm	8.9	26.6°C	12 h 21	53	Good coverage
October	23°C	13.8°C	104 mm	7.3	23.4°C	11 h 15	81	Good coverage
November	17.2°C	7.8°C	62 mm	6.3	19.5°C	10 h 18	58	Good coverage
December	11.6°C	2.8°C	50 mm	5.5	16.3°C	9 h 51	33	Good coverage

What has changed

Kurashiki runs +1.3°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

+1.1

Feb

+0.7

Mar

+2.3

Apr

+1.4

May

+1.5

Jun

+1.4

Jul

+1.7

Aug

+1.6

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+1.4

Nov

+1.5

Dec

+0.4

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.5°C.

Records at OKAYAMA, 1951–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	18.8°C27 Jan 1969	-8.9°C24 Jan 1963	39 mm15 Jan 1998	93 mm2001 · driest 0 mm in 2026	71
February	22.3°C27 Feb 1954	-9.1°C27 Feb 1981	48 mm19 Feb 1985	138 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 1995	72
March	25.4°C26 Mar 2025	-7.0°C5 Mar 1977	69 mm16 Mar 1965	159 mm2018 · driest 7 mm in 1973	72
April	29.6°C22 Apr 2004	-3.6°C4 Apr 1957	72 mm8 Apr 1974	230 mm1967 · driest 0 mm in 2025	72
May	33.6°C27 May 2015	1.0°C3 May 1953	129 mm28 May 2024	304 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2025	71
June	37.0°C13 Jun 2013	8.4°C1 Jun 1978	147 mm25 Jun 1985	439 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 2025	71
July	38.1°C24 Jul 2018	12.6°C4 Jul 1966	197 mm7 Jul 2018	416 mm1952 · driest 0 mm in 2025	72
August	39.4°C5 Aug 2025	14.8°C20 Aug 1956	99 mm11 Aug 1960	376 mm1980 · driest 0 mm in 2025	70
September	37.1°C3 Sep 2020	7.2°C29 Sep 1965	133 mm4 Sep 2011	459 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 2025	70
October	33.4°C6 Oct 2018	1.7°C28 Oct 1958	120 mm19 Oct 1979	315 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 2025	71
November	26.9°C1 Nov 1977	-2.2°C27 Nov 1966	58 mm11 Nov 2009	153 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1971	71
December	20.6°C3 Dec 1968	-6.5°C27 Dec 1956	85 mm5 Dec 2004	106 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2024	71

Typical days per month at OKAYAMA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	8	1
February	0	0	6	2
March	0	0	2	3
April	3	0	0	3
May	16	2	0	3
June	23	7	0	5
July	29	21	0	5
August	30	26	0	2
September	25	10	0	4
October	8	<1	0	2
November	0	0	0	2
December	0	0	2	1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 82); on 2011–2025 it is October (88). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in OKAYAMA’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%	16%	4%	9%	7.9–10.4°C
February	<1%	23%	7%	23%	8.2–11.7°C
March	4%	29%	11%	29%	12.3–15.2°C
April	36%	32%	14%	37%	17.9–21.3°C
May	65%	32%	15%	35%	22.6–25.7°C
June	62%	39%	20%	55%	25.8–28.6°C
July	66%	35%	18%	38%	29.1–33.3°C
August	77%	23%	10%	24%	30.8–34.5°C
September	69%	32%	16%	36%	26.3–30.1°C
October	64%	24%	10%	19%	21.3–24.0°C
November	16%	20%	7%	15%	15.6–18.6°C
December	<1%	15%	4%	9%	9.7–13.0°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 1858311
NOAA station: JA000047768 · OKAYAMA
Station distance: 16.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 15 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.58°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 27 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 OKAYAMA is what differs

Okayama→Sōja→Tamano→Akaiwa→Bizen→Setouchi→

Or put two places side by side: Kurashiki vs Okayama

Best time to visitKurashiki.

October

September

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Kurashiki runs +1.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Kurashiki.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Kurashiki runs +1.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.