Climate averages 1991–2020

Kobe weather
in October.

A mild, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 21.7°C Daytime mean, October
Average low 15.4°C Night-time mean, October
Rainfall 159 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Kobe · average highYear overview

October is a mild month in Kobe: daytime highs average 21.7°C and nights cool to about 15.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 159 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes October a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 20 min on an average October day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nishinomiya (14 km away). In October its highs average 21.8°C, about as warm as Kobe, with 159 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kobe ranks joint 52nd 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; Kobe is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.

From October to November, average highs fall by 5.6°C to 16.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 159 mm to 86 mm.

The annual picture

October 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. -505101520253035 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 2500

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

Every month, side by side

Kobe climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Kobe, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 8.3°C1.9°C1.9°C556.210.110 h
February 9.2°C1.8°C1.8°C667.210.911 h
March 12.7°C4.6°C4.6°C11110.311.912 h
April 17.8°C9.6°C9.6°C12410.513.013 h
May 22.4°C15.0°C15.0°C15010.714.014 h
June 25.6°C19.4°C19.4°C19613.514.414 h
July 29.0°C23.8°C23.8°C20315.314.214 h
August 30.5°C24.9°C24.9°C13113.613.513 h
September 27.1°C21.2°C21.2°C19112.812.412 h
October, selected 21.7°C15.4°C15.4°C1599.611.311 h
November 16.1°C9.6°C9.6°C867.410.410 h
December 10.7°C4.5°C4.5°C666.69.910 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

Distance from Kobe

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

Nishinomiya and Takarazuka lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.