Climate averages 1991–2020
Fukuoka weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Fukuoka: daytime highs average 11.1°C and nights cool to about 5.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 58 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kasuga (9 km away). In December its highs average 10.9°C, about as warm as Fukuoka, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Fukuoka ranks joint 58th of 303 for the warmest December highs and joint 164th of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Fukuoka is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 8.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 69 mm to 63 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
Fukuoka climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.7°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 63 | 9.7 | 10.210 h |
| February | 10.0°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 73 | 9.3 | 11.011 h |
| March | 13.4°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 115 | 11.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 18.4°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 130 | 11.0 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.9°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 147 | 10.6 | 13.914 h |
| June | 25.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 305 | 15.8 | 14.314 h |
| July | 29.3°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 286 | 17.5 | 14.114 h |
| August | 30.7°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 171 | 15.1 | 13.413 h |
| September | 27.1°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 179 | 12.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.1°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 101 | 8.0 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 86 | 8.6 | 10.510 h |
| December, selected | 11.1°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 69 | 9.3 | 10.010 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
- Kasuga in DecemberJapan · 9 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 3.9°C · 69 mm rain
- Maebaru-chūō in DecemberJapan · 20 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 7.1°C · 72 mm rain
- Itoshima in DecemberJapan · 22 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 6.3°C · 72 mm rain
- Iizuka in DecemberJapan · 25 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 3.8°C · 61 mm rain
- Munakata in DecemberJapan · 25 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 5.3°C · 66 mm rain
- Tosu in DecemberJapan · 28 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 3.4°C · 70 mm rain
- Kurume in DecemberJapan · 33 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.5°C · 70 mm rain
- Saga in DecemberJapan · 42 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 5.0°C · 71 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 Fukuoka) is explained once on the Fukuoka year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kasuga lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.