Climate averages 1991–2020
Kusatsu weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Kusatsu: daytime highs average 7.2°C and nights cool to about -0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 05 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Moriyama (6 km away). In January its highs average 7.1°C, about as warm as Kusatsu, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kusatsu ranks joint 207th of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 95th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Kusatsu is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 8.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 61 mm to 66 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
Kusatsu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.2°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 61 | 8.3 | 10.110 h |
| February | 8.2°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 66 | 9.2 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.1°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 110 | 12.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.6°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 119 | 11.0 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.4°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 138 | 10.7 | 14.014 h |
| June | 25.7°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 177 | 12.9 | 14.514 h |
| July | 29.3°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 181 | 14.8 | 14.314 h |
| August | 30.8°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 103 | 11.1 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.7°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 153 | 11.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.9°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 148 | 9.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.3°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 74 | 6.7 | 10.410 h |
| December | 9.7°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 58 | 7.7 | 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
- Moriyama in JanuaryJapan · 6 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 0.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Ōtsu in JanuaryJapan · 9 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -0.5°C · 64 mm rain
- Ōmihachiman in JanuaryJapan · 17 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 0.0°C · 81 mm rain
- Kōka in JanuaryJapan · 18 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -0.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Kyoto in JanuaryJapan · 19 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 0.0°C · 64 mm rain
- Uji in JanuaryJapan · 20 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 0.1°C · 64 mm rain
- Youkaichi in JanuaryJapan · 24 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -0.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Jōyō in JanuaryJapan · 24 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -0.2°C · 58 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 Kusatsu) is explained once on the Kusatsu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Moriyama lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.