Climate averages 1991–2020
Kyoto weather
in July.
A hot, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a hot month in Kyoto: daytime highs average 29.4°C and nights cool to about 22.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 239 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes July a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 16 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ōtsu (11 km away). In July its highs average 29.0°C, about as warm as Kyoto, with 239 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kyoto ranks joint 33rd of 303 for the warmest July highs and joint 211th of 303 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 303 cities is 27.9°C; Kyoto is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From July to August, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 30.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 239 mm to 140 mm.
The annual picture
July 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
Kyoto climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.5°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 64 | 7.9 | 10.110 h |
| February | 8.5°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 71 | 9.0 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.4°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 122 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.8°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 133 | 11.7 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.6°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 153 | 11.6 | 14.014 h |
| June | 25.9°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 205 | 14.6 | 14.514 h |
| July, selected | 29.4°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 239 | 17.6 | 14.314 h |
| August | 30.9°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 140 | 13.5 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.8°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 187 | 12.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.1°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 161 | 9.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.6°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 84 | 7.6 | 10.410 h |
| December | 10.0°C2.3°C | 2.3°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
July in nearby cities
- Ōtsu in JulyJapan · 11 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 21.6°C · 239 mm rain
- Kōtari in JulyJapan · 12 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.3°C · 239 mm rain
- Uji in JulyJapan · 15 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.2°C · 239 mm rain
- Kameoka in JulyJapan · 16 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 21.9°C · 243 mm rain
- Kusatsu in JulyJapan · 19 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.0°C · 181 mm rain
- Jōyō in JulyJapan · 20 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 22.0°C · 161 mm rain
- Moriyama in JulyJapan · 21 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 21.9°C · 181 mm rain
- Hirakata in JulyJapan · 25 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 22.8°C · 161 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 Kyoto) is explained once on the Kyoto year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ōtsu, Uji and Kōtari lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.