Climate averages 1991–2020
Gifu weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Gifu: daytime highs average 9.8°C and nights cool to about 1.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 86 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 49 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kakamigahara (10 km away). In December its highs average 9.7°C, about as warm as Gifu, with 86 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Gifu ranks joint 196th of 303 for the warmest December highs and joint 237th of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Gifu is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 7.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 86 mm to 78 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
Gifu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.4°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 78 | 9.8 | 10.110 h |
| February | 8.5°C-1.3°C | -1.3°C | 84 | 9.3 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.4°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 157 | 11.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.6°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 186 | 12.3 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 216 | 13.1 | 14.014 h |
| June | 25.2°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 275 | 15.6 | 14.515 h |
| July | 28.6°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 372 | 19.5 | 14.314 h |
| August | 30.0°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 228 | 15.7 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.4°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 291 | 14.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.0°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 202 | 11.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.3°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 120 | 9.3 | 10.310 h |
| December, selected | 9.8°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 86 | 10.3 | 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
- Kakamigahara in DecemberJapan · 10 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 0.6°C · 86 mm rain
- Ichinomiya in DecemberJapan · 14 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 1.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Ōgaki in DecemberJapan · 15 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 1.7°C · 70 mm rain
- Sekimachi in DecemberJapan · 16 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 0.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Komaki in DecemberJapan · 21 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.9°C · 55 mm rain
- Kani in DecemberJapan · 27 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 0.3°C · 68 mm rain
- Ama in DecemberJapan · 27 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 1.8°C · 65 mm rain
- Kasugai in DecemberJapan · 27 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 1.2°C · 55 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 Gifu) is explained once on the Gifu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kakamigahara lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.