Climate averages 1991–2020
Akita weather
in January.
A cold month with heavy precipitation: the coolest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Akita: daytime highs average 1.6°C and nights cool to about -2.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 164 mm of precipitation on roughly 26 days, which makes January a month with heavy precipitation (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 42 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yurihonjō (37 km away). In January its highs average 1.9°C, about as warm as Akita, with 214 mm of precipitation.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Akita ranks joint 279th of 303 for the warmest January highs and 282nd of 303 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Akita is 5.4°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 2.2°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 164 mm to 123 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Akita climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 1.6°C-2.6°C | -2.6°C | 164 | 25.6 | 9.710 h |
| February | 2.2°C-2.6°C | -2.6°C | 123 | 21.2 | 10.711 h |
| March | 6.0°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 119 | 18.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 11.9°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 111 | 14.0 | 13.213 h |
| May | 17.2°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 130 | 13.4 | 14.314 h |
| June | 21.4°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 136 | 11.8 | 14.915 h |
| July | 24.8°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 223 | 15.7 | 14.715 h |
| August | 26.5°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 203 | 14.8 | 13.714 h |
| September | 23.0°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 190 | 15.0 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.1°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 179 | 15.6 | 11.211 h |
| November | 10.7°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 183 | 20.1 | 10.010 h |
| December | 4.6°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 199 | 24.7 | 9.49 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
January in nearby cities
- Yurihonjō in JanuaryJapan · 37 kmHigh 1.9°C · Low -2.5°C · 214 mm precipitation
- Daisen in JanuaryJapan · 44 kmHigh 0.8°C · Low -5.9°C · 111 mm precipitation
- Yokote in JanuaryJapan · 58 kmHigh 0.7°C · Low -6.3°C · 118 mm precipitation
- Morioka in JanuaryJapan · 88 kmHigh -0.4°C · Low -7.9°C · 64 mm precipitation
- Sakata in JanuaryJapan · 92 kmHigh 2.4°C · Low -1.7°C · 189 mm rain
- Hanamaki in JanuaryJapan · 93 kmHigh 0.6°C · Low -7.3°C · 80 mm precipitation
- Kitakami in JanuaryJapan · 98 kmHigh 0.9°C · Low -6.9°C · 73 mm precipitation
- Hirosaki in JanuaryJapan · 102 kmHigh -0.3°C · Low -6.6°C · 82 mm precipitation
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Akita) is explained once on the Akita year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.