Climate averages 1991–2020
Minami-Alps weather
in October.
A mild, very wet month: the 6th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a mild month in Minami-Alps: daytime highs average 20.0°C and nights cool to about 12.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 246 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes October a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 19 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kai (9 km away). In October its highs average 19.8°C, about as warm as Minami-Alps, with 186 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Minami-Alps ranks joint 211th of 303 for the warmest October highs and 289th of 303 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 303 cities is 20.4°C; Minami-Alps is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.1°C to 14.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 246 mm to 121 mm.
The annual picture
October 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Kai in OctoberJapan · 9 kmHigh 19.8°C · Low 11.9°C · 186 mm rain
- Kofu in OctoberJapan · 11 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 12.2°C · 186 mm rain
- Fujinomiya in OctoberJapan · 47 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 14.3°C · 296 mm rain
- Fuji, Japan in OctoberJapan · 54 kmHigh 21.7°C · Low 15.4°C · 265 mm rain
- Gotemba in OctoberJapan · 55 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 12.9°C · 261 mm rain
- Iida in OctoberJapan · 59 kmHigh 19.8°C · Low 11.3°C · 210 mm rain
- Saku in OctoberJapan · 67 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 10.1°C · 161 mm rain
- Numazu in OctoberJapan · 68 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 15.9°C · 245 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.