Climate averages 1991–2020
Honmachi weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Honmachi: daytime highs average 30.8°C and nights cool to about 24.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 162 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes August a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 21 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kumamoto (35 km away). In August its highs average 30.4°C, about as warm as Honmachi, with 135 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Honmachi ranks joint 31st of 303 for the warmest August highs and joint 194th of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Honmachi is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.9°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 162 mm to 174 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
Honmachi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.6°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 73 | 9.4 | 10.310 h |
| February | 11.1°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 92 | 10.0 | 11.011 h |
| March | 14.6°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 133 | 12.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.5°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 151 | 11.8 | 13.013 h |
| May | 23.8°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 174 | 11.8 | 13.814 h |
| June | 26.2°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 428 | 18.3 | 14.214 h |
| July | 29.5°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 347 | 18.2 | 14.114 h |
| August, selected | 30.8°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 162 | 16.1 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.9°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 174 | 13.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.0°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 100 | 8.2 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.4°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 96 | 8.8 | 10.511 h |
| December | 11.8°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 83 | 9.0 | 10.110 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
- Kumamoto in AugustJapan · 35 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 24.0°C · 135 mm rain
- Amakusa in AugustJapan · 38 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 25.0°C · 183 mm rain
- Ōmuta in AugustJapan · 60 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 24.2°C · 159 mm rain
- Isahaya in AugustJapan · 64 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 24.8°C · 185 mm rain
- Nagasaki in AugustJapan · 72 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 25.6°C · 185 mm rain
- Ōmura in AugustJapan · 76 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 25.5°C · 179 mm rain
- Aira in AugustJapan · 81 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.2°C · 173 mm rain
- Sendai, Japan in AugustJapan · 82 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 25.5°C · 166 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 Honmachi) is explained once on the Honmachi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.