Climate averages 1991–2020
Kyoto weather
in September.
A warm, very wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a warm month in Kyoto: daytime highs average 26.8°C and nights cool to about 19.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 187 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes September a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 26 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ōtsu (11 km away). In September its highs average 26.3°C, about as warm as Kyoto, with 187 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Kyoto ranks joint 72nd of 303 for the warmest September highs and joint 152nd of 303 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 303 cities is 25.7°C; Kyoto is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 5.7°C to 21.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 187 mm to 161 mm.
The annual picture
September 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 | 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, selected | 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
September in nearby cities
- Ōtsu in SeptemberJapan · 11 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.9°C · 187 mm rain
- Kōtari in SeptemberJapan · 12 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 19.5°C · 187 mm rain
- Uji in SeptemberJapan · 15 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.4°C · 187 mm rain
- Kameoka in SeptemberJapan · 16 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 19.1°C · 198 mm rain
- Kusatsu in SeptemberJapan · 19 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 19.4°C · 153 mm rain
- Jōyō in SeptemberJapan · 20 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 19.3°C · 140 mm rain
- Moriyama in SeptemberJapan · 21 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 19.3°C · 153 mm rain
- Hirakata in SeptemberJapan · 25 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 20.0°C · 140 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.