May
May · June · September
Japan · 1991–2020
May leads for comfortable weather in Yamanobe: typically 22.8°C by day, 10.2°C at night, with 70 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
May · June · September
August · June · July
May · October · April
The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 78 — days reach only 3.4°C, 21° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.
Month by month
The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4°C | -3.6°C | 97 mm | 18 | 9 h 46 | 5 | Good coverage |
| February | 4.5°C | -3.5°C | 80 mm | 15 | 10 h 42 | 5 | Good coverage |
| March | 9.2°C | -1°C | 90 mm | 14.1 | 11 h 50 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| April | 16.5°C | 4.3°C | 77 mm | 10.3 | 13 h 08 | 44 | Good coverage |
| May | 22.8°C | 10.2°C | 70 mm | 8.4 | 14 h 13 | 78 | Good coverage |
| June | 26°C | 15.2°C | 102 mm | 9.2 | 14 h 49 | 78 | Good coverage |
| July | 29.2°C | 19.8°C | 232 mm | 15.2 | 14 h 35 | 36 | Good coverage |
| August | 30.6°C | 20.6°C | 190 mm | 11.5 | 13 h 39 | 39 | Good coverage |
| September | 25.9°C | 16.2°C | 155 mm | 12.2 | 12 h 23 | 67 | Good coverage |
| October | 19.5°C | 9.3°C | 133 mm | 9.9 | 11 h 08 | 55 | Good coverage |
| November | 12.6°C | 3.5°C | 90 mm | 13.4 | 10 h 03 | 25 | Good coverage |
| December | 6.2°C | -1°C | 113 mm | 17.3 | 9 h 31 | 5 | Good coverage |
What has changed
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.
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.1°C5 Jan 1960 | -14.7°C20 Jan 1970 | 54 mm21 Jan 2024 | 163 mm1962 · driest 32 mm in 1957 | 75 |
| February | 18.9°C19 Feb 2024 | -12.0°C24 Feb 1968 | 55 mm16 Feb 2014 | 134 mm1961 · driest 0 mm in 2026 | 75 |
| March | 23.1°C28 Mar 2018 | -9.1°C3 Mar 1957 | 39 mm11 Mar 1995 | 155 mm2014 · driest 9 mm in 2025 | 75 |
| April | 30.5°C13 Apr 1998 | -4.4°C2 Apr 1970 | 85 mm25 Apr 1999 | 147 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 2025 | 75 |
| May | 34.1°C27 May 2019 | -1.2°C4 May 1957 | 54 mm14 May 1993 | 145 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 2025 | 74 |
| June | 37.5°C29 Jun 2018 | 4.8°C3 Jun 1958 | 100 mm22 Jun 1981 | 240 mm1981 · driest 0 mm in 2025 | 74 |
| July | 37.9°C14 Jul 2015 | 6.7°C1 Jul 1976 | 156 mm28 Jul 2020 | 460 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 2025 | 75 |
| August | 39.0°C23 Aug 2018 | 11.5°C26 Aug 1956 | 130 mm10 Aug 1995 | 409 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2025 | 73 |
| September | 36.6°C8 Sep 2020 | 4.9°C29 Sep 1960 | 139 mm21 Sep 2011 | 318 mm1958 · driest 0 mm in 2025 | 73 |
| October | 30.7°C6 Oct 2018 | -1.0°C31 Oct 1983 | 105 mm7 Oct 2006 | 277 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 2025 | 74 |
| November | 25.8°C1 Nov 1977 | -4.7°C29 Nov 1983 | 55 mm20 Nov 1970 | 159 mm1951 · driest 0 mm in 2025 | 74 |
| December | 20.1°C1 Dec 1990 | -12.4°C30 Dec 1976 | 77 mm26 Dec 1958 | 211 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 2025 | 74 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 |
| February | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 |
| March | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 |
| April | 2 | <1 | 2 | 2 |
| May | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| June | 18 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| July | 25 | 13 | 0 | 5 |
| August | 27 | 18 | 0 | 4 |
| September | 16 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
| October | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| November | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| December | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 |
The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 88); on 2011–2025 it is May (87). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0% | 53% | 7% | 74% | 1.6–4.7°C |
| February | 0% | 47% | 7% | 63% | 1.9–6.2°C |
| March | 1% | 39% | 7% | 47% | 6.4–10.6°C |
| April | 19% | 33% | 7% | 36% | 14.4–18.4°C |
| May | 55% | 30% | 9% | 31% | 20.7–23.9°C |
| June | 62% | 36% | 13% | 45% | 23.6–27.2°C |
| July | 57% | 43% | 19% | 54% | 26.0–31.2°C |
| August | 67% | 34% | 14% | 41% | 28.0–32.8°C |
| September | 58% | 40% | 14% | 50% | 23.3–27.4°C |
| October | 26% | 35% | 9% | 39% | 17.5–20.2°C |
| November | 1% | 41% | 9% | 56% | 10.9–13.7°C |
| December | 0% | 50% | 10% | 69% | 4.1–7.9°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.
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