Climate averages 1991–2020
Fuji, Japan weather
in December.
A cool, wet month: the 10th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Fuji, Japan: daytime highs average 12.1°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 101 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes December a wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 50 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fujinomiya (8 km away). In December its highs average 11.2°C, 0.9°C cooler than Fuji, Japan, with 107 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Fuji, Japan ranks joint 16th of 303 for the warmest December highs and 263rd of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Fuji, Japan is 2.6°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.6°C to 9.5°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 101 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Fuji, Japan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.5°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 101 | 11.1 | 10.110 h |
| February | 10.2°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 117 | 12.1 | 10.911 h |
| March | 13.4°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 202 | 16.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.0°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 194 | 14.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.0°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 194 | 14.9 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.7°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 257 | 17.9 | 14.514 h |
| July | 28.3°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 274 | 19.4 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.4°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 196 | 18.6 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.5°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 279 | 16.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.7°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 265 | 15.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 17.0°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 148 | 12.7 | 10.410 h |
| December, selected | 12.1°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 101 | 10.9 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Fujinomiya in DecemberJapan · 8 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.9°C · 107 mm rain
- Numazu in DecemberJapan · 18 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 5.9°C · 89 mm rain
- Gotemba in DecemberJapan · 29 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 1.8°C · 90 mm rain
- Shizuoka in DecemberJapan · 34 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 5.1°C · 91 mm rain
- Odawara in DecemberJapan · 44 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 4.9°C · 94 mm rain
- Fujieda in DecemberJapan · 51 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 5.9°C · 86 mm rain
- Minami-Alps in DecemberJapan · 54 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 1.4°C · 80 mm rain
- Hadano in DecemberJapan · 54 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 4.2°C · 94 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 Fuji) is explained once on the Fuji, Japan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.