Climate averages 1991–2020
Kanazawa weather
in January.
A cold, very wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Kanazawa: daytime highs average 5.0°C and nights cool to about -2.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 218 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 58 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Matsutō (10 km away). In January its highs average 5.0°C, about as warm as Kanazawa, with 218 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kanazawa ranks joint 245th of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 299th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Kanazawa is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 5.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 218 mm to 149 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Matsutō in JanuaryJapan · 10 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -1.7°C · 218 mm rain
- Komatsu in JanuaryJapan · 26 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -0.1°C · 218 mm rain
- Takaoka in JanuaryJapan · 39 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -2.1°C · 170 mm rain
- Imizu in JanuaryJapan · 49 kmHigh 4.0°C · Low -2.6°C · 211 mm rain
- Toyama in JanuaryJapan · 55 kmHigh 3.3°C · Low -3.4°C · 211 mm rain
- Fukui-shi in JanuaryJapan · 69 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low 0.6°C · 212 mm rain
- Takayama in JanuaryJapan · 77 kmHigh 1.4°C · Low -6.3°C · 155 mm precipitation
- Echizen in JanuaryJapan · 89 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 0.4°C · 212 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.