Climate averages 1991–2020
Minami-Alps weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Minami-Alps: daytime highs average 9.3°C and nights cool to about 1.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 80 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 48 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kai (9 km away). In December its highs average 8.9°C, about as warm as Minami-Alps, with 60 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Minami-Alps ranks joint 229th of 303 for the warmest December highs and joint 215th of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Minami-Alps is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 3.0°C to 6.3°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 80 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Minami-Alps climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.3°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 80 | 7.7 | 10.010 h |
| February | 7.3°C-1.9°C | -1.9°C | 95 | 9.3 | 10.911 h |
| March | 11.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 166 | 14.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.5°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 168 | 14.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.1°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 175 | 14.8 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.8°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 243 | 18.9 | 14.515 h |
| July | 28.3°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 269 | 21.3 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.0°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 192 | 20.9 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.3°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 270 | 18.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.0°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 246 | 15.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.9°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 121 | 10.9 | 10.310 h |
| December, selected | 9.3°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 80 | 8.3 | 9.810 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
December in nearby cities
- Kai in DecemberJapan · 9 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 1.2°C · 60 mm rain
- Kofu in DecemberJapan · 11 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 1.4°C · 60 mm rain
- Fujinomiya in DecemberJapan · 47 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.9°C · 107 mm rain
- Fuji, Japan in DecemberJapan · 54 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 5.0°C · 101 mm rain
- Gotemba in DecemberJapan · 55 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 1.8°C · 90 mm rain
- Iida in DecemberJapan · 59 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -0.7°C · 100 mm rain
- Saku in DecemberJapan · 67 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -1.1°C · 48 mm rain
- Numazu in DecemberJapan · 68 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 5.9°C · 89 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 Minami-Alps) is explained once on the Minami-Alps year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.