Climate averages 1991–2020
Eniwa weather
in January.
A freezing month with moderate precipitation: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a freezing month in Eniwa: daytime highs average -3.0°C and nights cool to about -10.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 41 mm of precipitation on roughly 8 days, which makes January a month with moderate precipitation (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 25 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chitose (10 km away). In January its highs average -2.3°C, 0.8°C warmer than Eniwa, with 36 mm of precipitation.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Eniwa ranks joint 297th of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 3rd of 303 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Eniwa is 10.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to -2.1°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 41 mm to 39 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
Eniwa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -3.0°C-10.2°C | -10.2°C | 41 | 8.0 | 9.49 h |
| February | -2.1°C-9.7°C | -9.7°C | 39 | 8.1 | 10.511 h |
| March | 2.1°C-5.8°C | -5.8°C | 55 | 10.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 9.1°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 66 | 11.1 | 13.413 h |
| May | 15.0°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 84 | 11.3 | 14.615 h |
| June | 18.8°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 76 | 10.1 | 15.315 h |
| July | 22.5°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 119 | 12.2 | 15.015 h |
| August | 23.6°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 171 | 13.2 | 13.914 h |
| September | 20.4°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 138 | 13.9 | 12.513 h |
| October | 14.3°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 87 | 11.8 | 11.111 h |
| November | 6.8°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 75 | 12.6 | 9.810 h |
| December | -0.3°C-6.5°C | -6.5°C | 62 | 10.2 | 9.19 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
- Chitose in JanuaryJapan · 10 kmHigh -2.3°C · Low -9.6°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Ebetsu in JanuaryJapan · 24 kmHigh -3.7°C · Low -10.6°C · 41 mm precipitation
- Sapporo in JanuaryJapan · 27 kmHigh -3.0°C · Low -9.0°C · 52 mm precipitation
- Tomakomai in JanuaryJapan · 29 kmHigh -2.0°C · Low -7.5°C · 44 mm precipitation
- Iwamizawa in JanuaryJapan · 37 kmHigh -3.5°C · Low -10.8°C · 49 mm precipitation
- Otaru in JanuaryJapan · 57 kmHigh -2.3°C · Low -5.8°C · 98 mm precipitation
- Muroran in JanuaryJapan · 80 kmHigh -2.0°C · Low -6.8°C · 51 mm precipitation
- Asahikawa in JanuaryJapan · 117 kmHigh -5.2°C · Low -12.1°C · 58 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 Eniwa) is explained once on the Eniwa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ebetsu lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.