Climate averages 1991–2020
Fukushima weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Fukushima: daytime highs average 3.8°C and nights cool to about -4.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 52 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yonezawa (36 km away). In January its highs average 1.7°C, 2.1°C cooler than Fukushima, with 190 mm of precipitation.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Fukushima ranks joint 260th of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 127th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Fukushima is 3.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 4.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 64 mm to 52 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
Fukushima climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.8°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 64 | 11.2 | 9.910 h |
| February | 4.9°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 52 | 9.7 | 10.811 h |
| March | 9.0°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 90 | 12.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.5°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 99 | 11.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 20.6°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 106 | 11.9 | 14.214 h |
| June | 23.5°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 133 | 14.3 | 14.715 h |
| July | 26.8°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 193 | 18.5 | 14.514 h |
| August | 27.9°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 163 | 16.5 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.1°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 169 | 14.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.6°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 144 | 11.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.9°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 67 | 9.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 6.9°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 55 | 11.1 | 9.610 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
- Yonezawa in JanuaryJapan · 36 kmHigh 1.7°C · Low -4.6°C · 190 mm precipitation
- Kōriyama in JanuaryJapan · 40 kmHigh 3.2°C · Low -3.7°C · 57 mm rain
- Sukagawa in JanuaryJapan · 52 kmHigh 3.5°C · Low -3.5°C · 54 mm rain
- Aizu-Wakamatsu in JanuaryJapan · 54 kmHigh 2.0°C · Low -3.6°C · 99 mm rain
- Yamagata in JanuaryJapan · 54 kmHigh 0.8°C · Low -6.4°C · 126 mm precipitation
- Natori-shi in JanuaryJapan · 59 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -1.0°C · 56 mm rain
- Sendai in JanuaryJapan · 67 kmHigh 4.1°C · Low -2.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Iwaki in JanuaryJapan · 86 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 1.1°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 Fukushima) is explained once on the Fukushima year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.