Climate averages 1991–2020
Minato weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Minato: daytime highs average 8.7°C and nights cool to about 3.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 09 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Izumisano (27 km away). In January its highs average 8.4°C, about as warm as Minato, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Minato ranks joint 61st of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 243rd of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Minato is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 9.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 83 mm to 87 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
Minato climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Izumisano in JanuaryJapan · 27 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 1.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Kishiwada in JanuaryJapan · 34 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 0.2°C · 61 mm rain
- Kawachi-Nagano in JanuaryJapan · 47 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low -0.5°C · 64 mm rain
- Sakai in JanuaryJapan · 50 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 0.9°C · 64 mm rain
- Akashi in JanuaryJapan · 51 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 2.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Tondabayashichō in JanuaryJapan · 52 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.2°C · 64 mm rain
- Kobe in JanuaryJapan · 53 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 1.9°C · 55 mm rain
- Tokushima in JanuaryJapan · 56 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 3.6°C · 71 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.