Climate averages 1991–2020
Fukui-shi weather
in January.
A cold, very wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Fukui-shi: daytime highs average 5.7°C and nights cool to about 0.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 212 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 00 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Echizen (20 km away). In January its highs average 5.8°C, about as warm as Fukui-shi, with 212 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Fukui-shi ranks joint 239th of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 294th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Fukui-shi is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 6.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 212 mm to 154 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Echizen in JanuaryJapan · 20 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 0.4°C · 212 mm rain
- Komatsu in JanuaryJapan · 43 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -0.1°C · 218 mm rain
- Matsutō in JanuaryJapan · 59 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -1.7°C · 218 mm rain
- Kanazawa in JanuaryJapan · 69 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -2.3°C · 218 mm rain
- Nagahama in JanuaryJapan · 76 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 0.2°C · 113 mm rain
- Gifu in JanuaryJapan · 86 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low -1.4°C · 78 mm rain
- Ōgaki in JanuaryJapan · 87 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Sekimachi in JanuaryJapan · 90 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -1.2°C · 66 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.