Climate averages 1991–2020
Fukui-shi weather
in December.
A cool, very wet month: the 10th warmest and the joint 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Fukui-shi: daytime highs average 8.9°C and nights cool to about 3.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 222 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes December a very wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 46 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Echizen (20 km away). In December its highs average 8.9°C, about as warm as Fukui-shi, with 222 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Fukui-shi ranks joint 235th of 303 for the warmest December highs and joint 295th of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Fukui-shi is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 3.1°C to 5.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 222 mm to 212 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
Fukui-shi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.7°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 212 | 23.3 | 10.010 h |
| February | 6.1°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 154 | 18.5 | 10.811 h |
| March | 10.0°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 169 | 16.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.2°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 150 | 13.5 | 13.113 h |
| May | 19.8°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 166 | 13.1 | 14.114 h |
| June | 23.3°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 200 | 13.7 | 14.615 h |
| July | 27.1°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 271 | 16.7 | 14.414 h |
| August | 28.6°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 166 | 13.2 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.0°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 222 | 14.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.8°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 174 | 13.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.5°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 172 | 16.2 | 10.310 h |
| December, selected | 8.9°C3.4°C | 3.4°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
December in nearby cities
- Echizen in DecemberJapan · 20 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.2°C · 222 mm rain
- Komatsu in DecemberJapan · 43 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 2.9°C · 230 mm rain
- Matsutō in DecemberJapan · 59 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 1.4°C · 230 mm rain
- Kanazawa in DecemberJapan · 69 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 0.8°C · 230 mm rain
- Nagahama in DecemberJapan · 76 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 2.9°C · 111 mm rain
- Gifu in DecemberJapan · 86 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 1.0°C · 86 mm rain
- Ōgaki in DecemberJapan · 87 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 1.7°C · 70 mm rain
- Sekimachi in DecemberJapan · 90 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 0.9°C · 68 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 Fukui-shi) is explained once on the Fukui-shi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Echizen lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.