Climate averages 1991–2020

Kanoya weather
in April.

A mild, very wet month: the 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 20.0°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 12.0°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 182 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Kanoya · average highYear overview

April is a mild month in Kanoya: daytime highs average 20.0°C and nights cool to about 12.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 182 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 55 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kagoshima (35 km away). In April its highs average 19.6°C, about as warm as Kanoya, with 176 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kanoya ranks 5th of 303 for the warmest April highs and joint 290th of 303 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 303 cities is 16.7°C; Kanoya is 3.3°C warmer than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 23.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 182 mm to 203 mm.

The annual picture

April 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 5000

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

Every month, side by side

Kanoya climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Kanoya, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 11.6°C5.0°C5.0°C818.110.410 h
February 12.9°C5.4°C5.4°C1049.011.111 h
March 15.9°C8.1°C8.1°C15912.712.012 h
April, selected 20.0°C12.0°C12.0°C18211.512.913 h
May 23.8°C16.3°C16.3°C20311.613.714 h
June 26.1°C20.5°C20.5°C47820.314.214 h
July 29.7°C24.3°C24.3°C28520.014.014 h
August 30.3°C24.9°C24.9°C17818.613.313 h
September 28.1°C22.6°C22.6°C21215.512.412 h
October 23.9°C17.8°C17.8°C1209.311.411 h
November 18.9°C12.4°C12.4°C1098.710.611 h
December 13.8°C7.3°C7.3°C837.210.110 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

April in nearby cities

Distance from Kanoya

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