Climate averages 1991–2020

Kurashiki weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 9.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 2.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 51 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Kurashiki: daytime highs average 9.1°C and nights cool to about 2.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 51 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 07 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Okayama (17 km away). In January its highs average 8.8°C, about as warm as Kurashiki, with 40 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kurashiki ranks joint 35th of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 19th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Kurashiki is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 10.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 51 mm to 61 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

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

Kurashiki climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kurashiki, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	9.1°C2.7°C	2.7°C	51	7.7	10.110 h
February	10.0°C2.8°C	2.8°C	61	8.2	10.911 h
March	13.3°C5.2°C	5.2°C	101	10.0	11.912 h
April	18.2°C9.7°C	9.7°C	115	10.2	13.013 h
May	22.5°C14.5°C	14.5°C	132	10.2	13.914 h
June	25.6°C18.9°C	18.9°C	178	11.8	14.414 h
July	29.2°C23.4°C	23.4°C	171	12.1	14.214 h
August	30.7°C24.6°C	24.6°C	95	9.2	13.413 h
September	27.1°C20.9°C	20.9°C	153	10.6	12.412 h
October	21.8°C15.0°C	15.0°C	121	8.4	11.311 h
November	16.5°C9.5°C	9.5°C	60	6.9	10.410 h
December	11.3°C4.8°C	4.8°C	55	7.5	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

Distance from Kurashiki

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