Climate averages 1991–2020
Fuji, Japan weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Fuji, Japan: daytime highs average 22.0°C and nights cool to about 14.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 194 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a very wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 59 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fujinomiya (8 km away). In May its highs average 21.2°C, 0.8°C cooler than Fuji, Japan, with 232 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Fuji, Japan ranks joint 135th of 303 for the warmest May highs and 279th of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Fuji, Japan is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 24.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 194 mm to 257 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
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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Fujinomiya in MayJapan · 8 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 13.0°C · 232 mm rain
- Numazu in MayJapan · 18 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 14.3°C · 232 mm rain
- Gotemba in MayJapan · 29 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 11.8°C · 186 mm rain
- Shizuoka in MayJapan · 34 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 13.9°C · 234 mm rain
- Odawara in MayJapan · 44 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 14.5°C · 181 mm rain
- Fujieda in MayJapan · 51 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 14.2°C · 223 mm rain
- Minami-Alps in MayJapan · 54 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 12.3°C · 175 mm rain
- Hadano in MayJapan · 54 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 14.1°C · 181 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.