Climate averages 1991–2020
Hikone weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Hikone: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 23.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 163 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 29 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nagahama (15 km away). In August its highs average 29.7°C, about as warm as Hikone, with 173 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Hikone ranks joint 136th of 303 for the warmest August highs and joint 200th of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Hikone is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.9°C to 25.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 163 mm to 212 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Hikone climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.7°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 74 | 11.3 | 10.110 h |
| February | 7.4°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 77 | 11.1 | 10.911 h |
| March | 11.0°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 124 | 12.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.3°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 140 | 12.0 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.0°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 170 | 12.0 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.6°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 216 | 14.9 | 14.514 h |
| July | 28.3°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 256 | 17.8 | 14.314 h |
| August, selected | 29.7°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 163 | 15.5 | 13.513 h |
| September | 25.8°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 212 | 13.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.3°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 166 | 10.8 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.8°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 86 | 8.6 | 10.310 h |
| December | 9.3°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 72 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Nagahama in AugustJapan · 15 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 23.1°C · 173 mm rain
- Youkaichi in AugustJapan · 16 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 22.9°C · 148 mm rain
- Ōmihachiman in AugustJapan · 19 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 22.8°C · 122 mm rain
- Kōka in AugustJapan · 31 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 22.8°C · 148 mm rain
- Moriyama in AugustJapan · 32 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.0°C · 103 mm rain
- Ōgaki in AugustJapan · 35 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.0°C · 190 mm rain
- Kusatsu in AugustJapan · 37 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 23.1°C · 103 mm rain
- Kuwana in AugustJapan · 44 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.2°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 Hikone) is explained once on the Hikone year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.