Climate averages 1991–2020
Kusatsu weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Kusatsu: daytime highs average 22.4°C and nights cool to about 12.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 138 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 59 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Moriyama (6 km away). In May its highs average 22.1°C, about as warm as Kusatsu, with 138 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kusatsu ranks joint 78th of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 125th of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Kusatsu is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 25.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 138 mm to 177 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Moriyama in MayJapan · 6 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 12.7°C · 138 mm rain
- Ōtsu in MayJapan · 9 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 12.5°C · 153 mm rain
- Ōmihachiman in MayJapan · 17 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 12.6°C · 148 mm rain
- Kōka in MayJapan · 18 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 12.7°C · 156 mm rain
- Kyoto in MayJapan · 19 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 12.9°C · 153 mm rain
- Uji in MayJapan · 20 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 13.0°C · 153 mm rain
- Youkaichi in MayJapan · 24 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 12.7°C · 156 mm rain
- Jōyō in MayJapan · 24 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 12.8°C · 129 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.