Climate averages 1991–2020
Kanazawa weather
in October.
A mild, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a mild month in Kanazawa: daytime highs average 19.9°C and nights cool to about 11.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 159 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes October a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 17 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Matsutō (10 km away). In October its highs average 19.8°C, about as warm as Kanazawa, with 159 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kanazawa ranks joint 217th of 303 for the warmest October highs and joint 120th of 303 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 303 cities is 20.4°C; Kanazawa is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.7°C to 14.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 159 mm to 172 mm.
The annual picture
October 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Matsutō in OctoberJapan · 10 kmHigh 19.8°C · Low 12.4°C · 159 mm rain
- Komatsu in OctoberJapan · 26 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 13.7°C · 159 mm rain
- Takaoka in OctoberJapan · 39 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 12.1°C · 174 mm rain
- Imizu in OctoberJapan · 49 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 11.7°C · 180 mm rain
- Toyama in OctoberJapan · 55 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 10.8°C · 180 mm rain
- Fukui-shi in OctoberJapan · 69 kmHigh 19.8°C · Low 14.3°C · 174 mm rain
- Takayama in OctoberJapan · 77 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 8.9°C · 181 mm rain
- Echizen in OctoberJapan · 89 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 14.1°C · 174 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.