Climate averages 1991–2020

Fuji, Japan weather
in January.

A cool, wet month: the coolest and one of the driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 9.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 2.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 101 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Fuji, Japan: daytime highs average 9.5°C and nights cool to about 2.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 101 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 05 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Fujinomiya (8 km away). In January its highs average 8.6°C, 0.9°C cooler than Fuji, Japan, with 101 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Fuji, Japan ranks joint 20th of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 267th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Fuji, Japan is 2.6°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 10.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 101 mm to 117 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages 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

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Fuji, Japan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	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	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Fuji

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 limits

How 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.