Climate averages 1991–2020
Kanazawa weather
in December.
A cool, very wet month: the 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Kanazawa: daytime highs average 8.3°C and nights cool to about 0.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 230 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes December a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 43 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Matsutō (10 km away). In December its highs average 8.3°C, about as warm as Kanazawa, with 230 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kanazawa ranks joint 244th of 303 for the warmest December highs and joint 297th of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Kanazawa is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 3.3°C to 5.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 230 mm to 218 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
Kanazawa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.0°C-2.3°C | -2.3°C | 218 | 24.0 | 10.010 h |
| February | 5.7°C-2.4°C | -2.4°C | 149 | 19.5 | 10.811 h |
| March | 10.1°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 149 | 16.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 125 | 12.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.1°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 130 | 12.5 | 14.114 h |
| June | 24.7°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 160 | 12.5 | 14.615 h |
| July | 28.1°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 215 | 15.5 | 14.414 h |
| August | 29.8°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 145 | 13.0 | 13.614 h |
| September | 25.5°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 197 | 14.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.9°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 159 | 13.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.2°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 172 | 17.3 | 10.310 h |
| December, selected | 8.3°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 230 | 23.0 | 9.710 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
December in nearby cities
- Matsutō in DecemberJapan · 10 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 1.4°C · 230 mm rain
- Komatsu in DecemberJapan · 26 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 2.9°C · 230 mm rain
- Takaoka in DecemberJapan · 39 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 0.7°C · 183 mm rain
- Imizu in DecemberJapan · 49 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low 0.3°C · 214 mm rain
- Toyama in DecemberJapan · 55 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -0.7°C · 214 mm rain
- Fukui-shi in DecemberJapan · 69 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.4°C · 222 mm rain
- Takayama in DecemberJapan · 77 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -3.2°C · 159 mm rain
- Echizen in DecemberJapan · 89 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.2°C · 222 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 Kanazawa) is explained once on the Kanazawa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Matsutō and Komatsu lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.