Climate averages 1991–2020

Kitami weather
in August.

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

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

Average high 23.6°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 16.3°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 134 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Kitami · average highYear overview

August is a warm month in Kitami: daytime highs average 23.6°C and nights cool to about 16.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 134 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 00 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kushiro (100 km away). In August its highs average 20.3°C, 3.3°C cooler than Kitami, with 147 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kitami ranks joint 298th of 303 for the warmest August highs and joint 109th of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Kitami is 5.6°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 3.6°C to 20.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 134 mm to 122 mm.

The annual picture

August 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. -20-15-10-5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

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

Every month, side by side

Kitami climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Kitami, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -4.4°C-13.1°C-13.1°C578.39.39 h
February -3.8°C-12.6°C-12.6°C447.010.410 h
March 1.0°C-7.8°C-7.8°C609.611.912 h
April 8.2°C-1.5°C-1.5°C6911.613.413 h
May 15.4°C5.3°C5.3°C7711.614.715 h
June 19.2°C10.4°C10.4°C7711.115.415 h
July 22.8°C14.8°C14.8°C10711.615.115 h
August, selected 23.6°C16.3°C16.3°C13412.514.014 h
September 20.0°C12.3°C12.3°C12212.012.613 h
October 14.1°C5.3°C5.3°C909.811.111 h
November 6.3°C-1.4°C-1.4°C659.69.710 h
December -1.3°C-9.8°C-9.8°C718.99.09 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

Distance from Kitami

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