Climate averages 1991–2020
Echizen weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Echizen: daytime highs average 20.1°C and nights cool to about 12.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 166 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a wet month (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 03 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fukui-shi (20 km away). In May its highs average 19.8°C, about as warm as Echizen, with 166 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Echizen ranks joint 251st of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 232nd of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Echizen is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 23.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 166 mm to 200 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Echizen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.8°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 212 | 23.3 | 10.010 h |
| February | 6.2°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 154 | 18.5 | 10.911 h |
| March | 10.3°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 169 | 16.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.5°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 150 | 13.5 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 20.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 166 | 13.1 | 14.014 h |
| June | 23.7°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 200 | 13.7 | 14.515 h |
| July | 27.4°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 271 | 16.7 | 14.314 h |
| August | 28.9°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 166 | 13.2 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.2°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 222 | 14.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.0°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 174 | 13.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.6°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 172 | 16.2 | 10.310 h |
| December | 8.9°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 222 | 22.0 | 9.810 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain 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
May in nearby cities
- Fukui-shi in MayJapan · 20 kmHigh 19.8°C · Low 12.9°C · 166 mm rain
- Nagahama in MayJapan · 57 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 12.7°C · 181 mm rain
- Komatsu in MayJapan · 63 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 12.8°C · 130 mm rain
- Hikone in MayJapan · 71 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 12.7°C · 170 mm rain
- Ōgaki in MayJapan · 72 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 12.4°C · 181 mm rain
- Gifu in MayJapan · 74 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 11.8°C · 216 mm rain
- Matsutō in MayJapan · 79 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 11.9°C · 130 mm rain
- Sekimachi in MayJapan · 81 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 11.8°C · 177 mm rain
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 Echizen) is explained once on the Echizen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Fukui-shi lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.