Climate averages 1991–2020

Kitakami weather
in July.

A warm, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 25.2°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 18.1°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 182 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a warm month in Kitakami: daytime highs average 25.2°C and nights cool to about 18.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 182 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes July a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 38 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Hanamaki (11 km away). In July its highs average 25.3°C, about as warm as Kitakami, with 169 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kitakami ranks 284th of 303 for the warmest July highs and joint 96th of 303 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 303 cities is 27.9°C; Kitakami is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 26.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 182 mm to 162 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm

Averages 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

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kitakami, 1991–2020
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, selected	25.2°C18.1°C	18.1°C	182	16.4	14.615 h
August	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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Kitakami

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