Climate averages 1991–2020

Gotemba weather
in January.

A cold, wet month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 6.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -1.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 96 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Gotemba: daytime highs average 6.6°C and nights cool to about -1.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 96 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 04 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Odawara (21 km away). In January its highs average 9.0°C, 2.4°C warmer than Gotemba, with 97 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Gotemba ranks joint 228th of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 257th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Gotemba is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 7.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 96 mm to 108 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Gotemba climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Gotemba, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	6.6°C-1.0°C	-1.0°C	96	10.1	10.110 h
February	7.3°C-1.1°C	-1.1°C	108	10.9	10.911 h
March	10.9°C1.7°C	1.7°C	184	15.9	11.912 h
April	16.1°C6.6°C	6.6°C	178	14.4	13.113 h
May	20.5°C11.8°C	11.8°C	186	14.6	14.014 h
June	23.3°C16.5°C	16.5°C	243	17.8	14.514 h
July	27.2°C20.8°C	20.8°C	235	17.8	14.314 h
August	28.0°C21.7°C	21.7°C	185	16.4	13.513 h
September	24.6°C18.5°C	18.5°C	263	16.7	12.412 h
October	19.5°C12.9°C	12.9°C	261	15.7	11.311 h
November	14.5°C6.9°C	6.9°C	132	12.1	10.310 h
December	9.4°C1.8°C	1.8°C	90	10.4	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

Distance from Gotemba

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Gotemba) is explained once on the Gotemba year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.