Climate averages 1991–2020

Isahaya weather
in May.

A mild, very wet month: the 6th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 21.3°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 15.8°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 197 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Isahaya · average highYear overview

May is a mild month in Isahaya: daytime highs average 21.3°C and nights cool to about 15.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 197 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 50 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ōmura (12 km away). In May its highs average 22.2°C, 1.0°C warmer than Isahaya, with 173 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Isahaya ranks joint 185th of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 282nd of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Isahaya is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 197 mm to 444 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. 05101520253035 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 4500

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

Every month, side by side

Isahaya climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Isahaya, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 9.3°C5.5°C5.5°C7910.910.210 h
February 10.2°C5.6°C5.6°C10010.211.011 h
March 13.2°C7.9°C7.9°C14912.012.012 h
April 17.4°C11.6°C11.6°C16711.413.013 h
May, selected 21.3°C15.8°C15.8°C19710.813.814 h
June 24.0°C19.6°C19.6°C44416.514.314 h
July 27.5°C23.6°C23.6°C34616.614.114 h
August 29.1°C24.8°C24.8°C18513.713.413 h
September 26.5°C21.9°C21.9°C20211.912.412 h
October 21.9°C17.3°C17.3°C1127.511.411 h
November 16.8°C12.4°C12.4°C1069.110.511 h
December 11.6°C7.7°C7.7°C9210.310.010 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 Isahaya

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 Isahaya) is explained once on the Isahaya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

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