Climate averages 1991–2020
Minami-Alps weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Minami-Alps: daytime highs average 22.1°C and nights cool to about 12.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 175 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 01 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kai (9 km away). In May its highs average 22.2°C, about as warm as Minami-Alps, with 129 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Minami-Alps ranks joint 123rd of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 256th of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Minami-Alps is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 24.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 175 mm to 243 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
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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Kai in MayJapan · 9 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 12.3°C · 129 mm rain
- Kofu in MayJapan · 11 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 12.4°C · 129 mm rain
- Fujinomiya in MayJapan · 47 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 13.0°C · 232 mm rain
- Fuji, Japan in MayJapan · 54 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 14.2°C · 194 mm rain
- Gotemba in MayJapan · 55 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 11.8°C · 186 mm rain
- Iida in MayJapan · 59 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 11.3°C · 191 mm rain
- Saku in MayJapan · 67 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 10.6°C · 131 mm rain
- Numazu in MayJapan · 68 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 14.3°C · 232 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.