Climate averages 1991–2020
Hachiōji weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Hachiōji: daytime highs average 21.2°C and nights cool to about 12.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 166 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes May a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 02 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Aihara (6 km away). In May its highs average 20.9°C, about as warm as Hachiōji, with 158 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Hachiōji ranks joint 194th of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 232nd of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Hachiōji is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 23.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 166 mm to 222 mm.
The annual picture
May 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
Hachiōji climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.8°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 77 | 8.5 | 10.010 h |
| February | 8.5°C-1.6°C | -1.6°C | 76 | 9.7 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.0°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 139 | 15.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.0°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 146 | 14.6 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 21.2°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 166 | 15.6 | 14.014 h |
| June | 23.8°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 222 | 19.5 | 14.515 h |
| July | 27.5°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 243 | 21.8 | 14.314 h |
| August | 28.6°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 205 | 21.0 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.0°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 249 | 18.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.8°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 242 | 16.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.0°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 101 | 11.3 | 10.310 h |
| December | 10.3°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 68 | 8.3 | 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
May in nearby cities
- Aihara in MayJapan · 6 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 12.6°C · 158 mm rain
- Hino in MayJapan · 7 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 12.6°C · 139 mm rain
- Akiruno in MayJapan · 12 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 12.8°C · 166 mm rain
- Sagamihara in MayJapan · 12 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 12.6°C · 158 mm rain
- Tama in MayJapan · 13 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 13.0°C · 139 mm rain
- Fuchū in MayJapan · 14 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 13.2°C · 139 mm rain
- Ōme in MayJapan · 16 kmHigh 21.7°C · Low 12.7°C · 166 mm rain
- Machida in MayJapan · 17 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 13.5°C · 137 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 Hachiōji) is explained once on the Hachiōji year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Iruma, Ōme and Akiruno lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.