Climate averages 1991–2020
Minato weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Minato: daytime highs average 29.4°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 114 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 26 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Izumisano (27 km away). In August its highs average 31.7°C, 2.3°C warmer than Minato, with 107 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Minato ranks joint 168th of 303 for the warmest August highs and joint 53rd of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Minato is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.9°C to 26.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 114 mm to 181 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Minato climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.7°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 83 | 11.5 | 10.110 h |
| February | 9.5°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 87 | 10.9 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.8°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 125 | 12.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.3°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 126 | 11.0 | 13.013 h |
| May | 21.4°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 149 | 10.7 | 13.914 h |
| June | 24.3°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 232 | 14.1 | 14.414 h |
| July | 27.8°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 195 | 13.4 | 14.214 h |
| August, selected | 29.4°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 114 | 11.3 | 13.413 h |
| September | 26.5°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 181 | 13.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.4°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 179 | 10.9 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.3°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 100 | 8.8 | 10.410 h |
| December | 11.1°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 86 | 10.7 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Izumisano in AugustJapan · 27 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.3°C · 107 mm rain
- Kishiwada in AugustJapan · 34 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 23.5°C · 107 mm rain
- Kawachi-Nagano in AugustJapan · 47 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 22.9°C · 100 mm rain
- Sakai in AugustJapan · 50 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.0°C · 100 mm rain
- Akashi in AugustJapan · 51 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.7°C · 117 mm rain
- Tondabayashichō in AugustJapan · 52 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 23.4°C · 100 mm rain
- Kobe in AugustJapan · 53 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.9°C · 131 mm rain
- Tokushima in AugustJapan · 56 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.6°C · 203 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 Minato) is explained once on the Minato year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.