Climate averages 1991–2020
Hiroshima weather
in September.
A warm, very wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a warm month in Hiroshima: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 19.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 188 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes September a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 25 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hatsukaichi (12 km away). In September its highs average 27.3°C, about as warm as Hiroshima, with 185 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Hiroshima ranks joint 67th of 303 for the warmest September highs and joint 158th of 303 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 303 cities is 25.7°C; Hiroshima is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 5.3°C to 21.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 188 mm to 109 mm.
The annual picture
September 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
Hiroshima climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.0°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 55 | 9.5 | 10.110 h |
| February | 9.3°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 68 | 9.9 | 10.911 h |
| March | 13.1°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 110 | 11.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.3°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 124 | 10.3 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.8°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 143 | 10.3 | 13.914 h |
| June | 25.8°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 215 | 14.3 | 14.414 h |
| July | 29.1°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 251 | 16.1 | 14.214 h |
| August | 30.4°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 157 | 14.0 | 13.413 h |
| September, selected | 26.9°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 188 | 12.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.5°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 109 | 8.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.9°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 71 | 8.1 | 10.410 h |
| December | 10.3°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 64 | 9.6 | 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
September in nearby cities
- Hatsukaichi in SeptemberJapan · 12 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 20.5°C · 185 mm rain
- Kure in SeptemberJapan · 22 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 21.1°C · 163 mm rain
- Higashihiroshima in SeptemberJapan · 26 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 19.3°C · 169 mm rain
- Iwakuni in SeptemberJapan · 34 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 20.9°C · 185 mm rain
- Mihara in SeptemberJapan · 58 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 20.4°C · 160 mm rain
- Imabari in SeptemberJapan · 62 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 21.9°C · 196 mm rain
- Shūnan in SeptemberJapan · 67 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 19.0°C · 169 mm rain
- Matsuyama in SeptemberJapan · 69 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 21.5°C · 187 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 Hiroshima) is explained once on the Hiroshima year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.