Climate averages 1991–2020
Minami-Alps weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Minami-Alps: daytime highs average 6.3°C and nights cool to about -2.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 80 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 02 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kai (9 km away). In January its highs average 5.8°C, about as warm as Minami-Alps, with 65 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Minami-Alps ranks joint 234th of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 227th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Minami-Alps is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 7.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 80 mm to 95 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
Minami-Alps climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Kai in JanuaryJapan · 9 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low -2.4°C · 65 mm rain
- Kofu in JanuaryJapan · 11 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low -2.4°C · 65 mm rain
- Fujinomiya in JanuaryJapan · 47 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 1.2°C · 101 mm rain
- Fuji, Japan in JanuaryJapan · 54 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 2.2°C · 101 mm rain
- Gotemba in JanuaryJapan · 55 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low -1.0°C · 96 mm rain
- Iida in JanuaryJapan · 59 kmHigh 4.0°C · Low -4.5°C · 99 mm rain
- Saku in JanuaryJapan · 67 kmHigh 3.9°C · Low -4.4°C · 55 mm rain
- Numazu in JanuaryJapan · 68 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 3.1°C · 95 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.