Climate averages 1991–2020

Imizu weather
in May.

A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 20.7°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 10.8°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 156 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Imizu · average highYear overview

May is a mild month in Imizu: daytime highs average 20.7°C and nights cool to about 10.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 156 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 07 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Takaoka (10 km away). In May its highs average 21.0°C, about as warm as Imizu, with 144 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Imizu ranks joint 225th of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 205th of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Imizu is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 24.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 156 mm to 200 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Imizu climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Imizu, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 4.0°C-2.6°C-2.6°C21123.110.010 h
February 4.7°C-2.7°C-2.7°C16719.210.811 h
March 9.4°C0.3°C0.3°C17918.911.912 h
April 15.6°C5.2°C5.2°C15014.513.113 h
May, selected 20.7°C10.8°C10.8°C15614.614.114 h
June 24.2°C15.9°C15.9°C20015.414.615 h
July 27.6°C20.5°C20.5°C27318.514.414 h
August 29.1°C21.7°C21.7°C17815.613.614 h
September 24.6°C17.8°C17.8°C21115.612.512 h
October 19.0°C11.7°C11.7°C18014.611.311 h
November 13.3°C5.6°C5.6°C16916.810.210 h
December 7.3°C0.3°C0.3°C21422.09.710 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

Distance from Imizu

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Imizu) is explained once on the Imizu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Toyama lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.