Climate averages 1991–2020
Kōtari weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Kōtari: daytime highs average 7.9°C and nights cool to about 0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 06 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Uji (10 km away). In January its highs average 7.6°C, about as warm as Kōtari, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kōtari ranks joint 142nd of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 127th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Kōtari is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 8.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 64 mm to 71 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Kōtari climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.9°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 64 | 7.9 | 10.110 h |
| February | 8.9°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 71 | 9.0 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.7°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 122 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.1°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 133 | 11.7 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.8°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 153 | 11.6 | 14.014 h |
| June | 26.1°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 205 | 14.6 | 14.514 h |
| July | 29.5°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 239 | 17.6 | 14.314 h |
| August | 31.1°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 140 | 13.5 | 13.513 h |
| September | 27.1°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 187 | 12.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 161 | 9.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.8°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 84 | 7.6 | 10.410 h |
| December | 10.3°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 65 | 7.6 | 9.910 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
January in nearby cities
- Uji in JanuaryJapan · 10 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 0.1°C · 64 mm rain
- Kyoto in JanuaryJapan · 12 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 0.0°C · 64 mm rain
- Jōyō in JanuaryJapan · 13 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -0.2°C · 58 mm rain
- Hirakata in JanuaryJapan · 13 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 0.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Kameoka in JanuaryJapan · 14 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -0.3°C · 61 mm rain
- Katano in JanuaryJapan · 14 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low 0.2°C · 58 mm rain
- Ōtsu in JanuaryJapan · 17 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -0.5°C · 64 mm rain
- Kusatsu in JanuaryJapan · 26 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -0.2°C · 61 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 Kōtari) is explained once on the Kōtari year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kyoto, Ōtsu and Uji lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.