Climate averages 1991–2020
Ichihara weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Ichihara: daytime highs average 21.5°C and nights cool to about 15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 149 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 01 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chiba (10 km away). In May its highs average 21.6°C, about as warm as Ichihara, with 149 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Ichihara ranks joint 177th of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 177th of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Ichihara is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 24.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 149 mm to 189 mm.
The annual picture
May 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, selected | 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 | 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
May in nearby cities
- Chiba in MayJapan · 10 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 14.7°C · 149 mm rain
- Narashino in MayJapan · 19 kmHigh 21.7°C · Low 14.3°C · 131 mm rain
- Kisarazu in MayJapan · 20 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 15.2°C · 149 mm rain
- Mobara in MayJapan · 22 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 15.4°C · 126 mm rain
- Urayasu in MayJapan · 23 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 14.4°C · 131 mm rain
- Yachiyo in MayJapan · 25 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 14.3°C · 131 mm rain
- Sakura in MayJapan · 26 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 14.4°C · 128 mm rain
- Kamagaya in MayJapan · 29 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 13.9°C · 131 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.