Climate averages 1991–2020
Ichihara weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Ichihara: daytime highs average 11.3°C and nights cool to about 5.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 80 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 48 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chiba (10 km away). In December its highs average 11.1°C, about as warm as Ichihara, with 80 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Ichihara ranks joint 43rd of 303 for the warmest December highs and joint 215th of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Ichihara is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.5°C to 8.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 80 mm to 86 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Ichihara climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.8°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 86 | 7.8 | 10.010 h |
| February | 9.5°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 83 | 8.8 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.6°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 149 | 13.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.2°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 138 | 12.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.5°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 149 | 12.1 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.4°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 189 | 14.3 | 14.515 h |
| July | 28.1°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 155 | 12.9 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.5°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 118 | 11.5 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.1°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 207 | 14.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.0°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 251 | 14.4 | 11.311 h |
| November | 16.1°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 126 | 11.8 | 10.310 h |
| December, selected | 11.3°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 80 | 8.7 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Chiba in DecemberJapan · 10 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 4.8°C · 80 mm rain
- Narashino in DecemberJapan · 19 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 3.7°C · 63 mm rain
- Kisarazu in DecemberJapan · 20 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 5.9°C · 80 mm rain
- Mobara in DecemberJapan · 22 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 6.2°C · 75 mm rain
- Urayasu in DecemberJapan · 23 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 3.5°C · 63 mm rain
- Yachiyo in DecemberJapan · 25 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 3.8°C · 63 mm rain
- Sakura in DecemberJapan · 26 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 4.1°C · 68 mm rain
- Kamagaya in DecemberJapan · 29 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.7°C · 63 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 Ichihara) is explained once on the Ichihara year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Chiba and Kisarazu lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.