Climate averages 1991–2020

Hikone weather
in June.

A warm, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 24.6°C Daytime mean, June

Average low 17.5°C Night-time mean, June

Rainfall 216 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

June is a warm month in Hikone: daytime highs average 24.6°C and nights cool to about 17.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 216 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes June a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 29 min on an average June day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nagahama (15 km away). In June its highs average 24.8°C, about as warm as Hikone, with 228 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Hikone ranks joint 165th of 303 for the warmest June highs and 200th of 303 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 303 cities is 24.4°C; Hikone is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.

From June to July, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 28.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 216 mm to 256 mm.

The annual picture

June 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

Hikone climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Hikone, 1991–2020
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, selected	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	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

June in nearby cities

Distance from Hikone

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 Hikone) is explained once on the Hikone year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.