Climate averages 1991–2020
Himeji weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Himeji: daytime highs average 8.2°C and nights cool to about 2.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 06 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kakogawachō-honmachi (13 km away). In January its highs average 8.3°C, about as warm as Himeji, with 52 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Himeji ranks joint 113th of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 25th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Himeji is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 9.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 52 mm to 65 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Himeji climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 8.2°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 52 | 7.1 | 10.110 h |
| February | 9.0°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 65 | 7.7 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.2°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 109 | 10.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 127 | 10.1 | 13.013 h |
| May | 20.8°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 145 | 10.1 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.0°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 180 | 12.4 | 14.514 h |
| July | 27.5°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 191 | 12.9 | 14.214 h |
| August | 29.0°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 114 | 10.9 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.0°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 202 | 12.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.1°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 151 | 9.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.8°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 77 | 7.3 | 10.410 h |
| December | 10.6°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 64 | 7.3 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Kakogawachō-honmachi in JanuaryJapan · 13 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 2.2°C · 52 mm rain
- Tatsuno in JanuaryJapan · 14 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 2.4°C · 50 mm rain
- Miki in JanuaryJapan · 26 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 1.5°C · 49 mm rain
- Akashi in JanuaryJapan · 33 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 2.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Kobe in JanuaryJapan · 46 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 1.9°C · 55 mm rain
- Sandachō in JanuaryJapan · 49 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low 0.2°C · 55 mm rain
- Nishinomiya in JanuaryJapan · 59 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 1.4°C · 55 mm rain
- Takarazuka in JanuaryJapan · 60 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 1.2°C · 55 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 Himeji) is explained once on the Himeji year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kakogawachō-honmachi lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.