Climate averages 1991–2020

Kurashiki weather
in July.

A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.2°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 23.4°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 171 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a hot month in Kurashiki: daytime highs average 29.2°C and nights cool to about 23.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 171 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes July a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 14 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Okayama (17 km away). In July its highs average 29.6°C, about as warm as Kurashiki, with 187 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kurashiki ranks joint 53rd of 303 for the warmest July highs and joint 76th of 303 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 303 cities is 27.9°C; Kurashiki is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 30.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 171 mm to 95 mm.

The annual picture

July 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	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, selected	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

July 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.