Climate averages 1991–2020
Handa weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Handa: daytime highs average 21.8°C and nights cool to about 14.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 138 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 58 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nishio (11 km away). In May its highs average 21.8°C, about as warm as Handa, with 154 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Handa ranks joint 157th of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 125th of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Handa is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.1°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 138 mm to 178 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
Handa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.6°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 53 | 5.6 | 10.110 h |
| February | 9.5°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 62 | 6.5 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.9°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 107 | 9.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.6°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 116 | 9.9 | 13.013 h |
| May, selected | 21.8°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 138 | 10.3 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.9°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 178 | 13.4 | 14.514 h |
| July | 28.3°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 186 | 14.7 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.7°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 110 | 12.4 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.6°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 192 | 12.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.4°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 179 | 10.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 16.1°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 84 | 7.2 | 10.410 h |
| December | 10.9°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 56 | 5.6 | 9.910 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
- Nishio in MayJapan · 11 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 14.0°C · 154 mm rain
- Kariya in MayJapan · 12 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 13.5°C · 138 mm rain
- Tōkai in MayJapan · 16 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 13.3°C · 138 mm rain
- Anjō in MayJapan · 16 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 13.1°C · 138 mm rain
- Okazaki in MayJapan · 23 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 13.4°C · 172 mm rain
- Gamagōri in MayJapan · 28 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 14.1°C · 164 mm rain
- Toyota in MayJapan · 30 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 12.6°C · 172 mm rain
- Yokkaichi in MayJapan · 30 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 13.2°C · 161 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 Handa) is explained once on the Handa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Anjō, Kariya and Tōkai lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.