Climate averages 1991–2020
Kitakami weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Kitakami: daytime highs average 26.4°C and nights cool to about 19.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 162 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 42 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hanamaki (11 km away). In August its highs average 26.5°C, about as warm as Kitakami, with 141 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kitakami ranks joint 284th of 303 for the warmest August highs and joint 194th of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Kitakami is 2.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.9°C to 22.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 162 mm to 154 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Kitakami climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.9°C-6.9°C | -6.9°C | 73 | 13.7 | 9.710 h |
| February | 1.9°C-6.5°C | -6.5°C | 64 | 12.7 | 10.711 h |
| March | 6.2°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 98 | 14.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.3°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 104 | 14.0 | 13.213 h |
| May | 18.7°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 114 | 13.1 | 14.314 h |
| June | 22.2°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 130 | 12.7 | 14.915 h |
| July | 25.2°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 182 | 16.4 | 14.615 h |
| August, selected | 26.4°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 162 | 15.2 | 13.714 h |
| September | 22.6°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 154 | 13.6 | 12.512 h |
| October | 16.7°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 128 | 12.2 | 11.211 h |
| November | 10.3°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 87 | 13.2 | 10.110 h |
| December | 3.7°C-3.0°C | -3.0°C | 86 | 15.3 | 9.59 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
August in nearby cities
- Hanamaki in AugustJapan · 11 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 19.3°C · 141 mm rain
- Ōshū in AugustJapan · 17 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 19.9°C · 153 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in AugustJapan · 41 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.8°C · 142 mm rain
- Morioka in AugustJapan · 46 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.8°C · 137 mm rain
- Yokote in AugustJapan · 49 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 19.9°C · 180 mm rain
- Daisen in AugustJapan · 57 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 20.0°C · 173 mm rain
- Tome in AugustJapan · 64 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 20.5°C · 135 mm rain
- Ōsaki in AugustJapan · 78 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 20.4°C · 165 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 Kitakami) is explained once on the Kitakami year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.