Climate averages 1991–2020
Hōfu 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 Hōfu: daytime highs average 30.3°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 135 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 25 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yamaguchi (17 km away). In August its highs average 30.2°C, about as warm as Hōfu, with 167 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Hōfu ranks joint 71st of 303 for the warmest August highs and joint 112th of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Hōfu is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.2°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 135 mm to 156 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
Hōfu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.6°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 65 | 10.4 | 10.210 h |
| February | 9.8°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 77 | 10.1 | 10.911 h |
| March | 13.3°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 123 | 10.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 18.1°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 141 | 10.2 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.5°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 162 | 10.1 | 13.914 h |
| June | 25.6°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 260 | 14.2 | 14.414 h |
| July | 29.0°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 252 | 14.1 | 14.214 h |
| August, selected | 30.3°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 135 | 11.7 | 13.413 h |
| September | 27.1°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 156 | 10.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.1°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 102 | 7.4 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.5°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 78 | 8.2 | 10.410 h |
| December | 10.9°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 68 | 10.5 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Yamaguchi in AugustJapan · 17 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.4°C · 167 mm rain
- Shūnan in AugustJapan · 24 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 22.6°C · 147 mm rain
- Ube in AugustJapan · 31 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 24.7°C · 141 mm rain
- Nakatsu in AugustJapan · 61 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 24.6°C · 144 mm rain
- Iwakuni in AugustJapan · 61 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 24.4°C · 169 mm rain
- Yukuhashi in AugustJapan · 65 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.3°C · 132 mm rain
- Kitakyushu in AugustJapan · 70 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 24.6°C · 142 mm rain
- Hatsukaichi in AugustJapan · 78 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 24.3°C · 169 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 Hōfu) is explained once on the Hōfu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.