Climate averages 1991–2020
Nagahama weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Nagahama: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 23.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 173 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes August a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 29 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hikone (15 km away). In August its highs average 29.7°C, about as warm as Nagahama, with 163 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Nagahama ranks joint 136th of 303 for the warmest August highs and joint 230th of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Nagahama is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.9°C to 25.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 173 mm to 222 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
Nagahama climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.3°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 113 | 18.1 | 10.110 h |
| February | 7.1°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 102 | 15.2 | 10.911 h |
| March | 11.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 144 | 15.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.6°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 152 | 13.0 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.3°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 181 | 12.5 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.8°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 228 | 15.4 | 14.515 h |
| July | 28.4°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 287 | 18.3 | 14.314 h |
| August, selected | 29.7°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 173 | 15.7 | 13.513 h |
| September | 25.8°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 222 | 14.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.4°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 171 | 12.4 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.8°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 110 | 12.8 | 10.310 h |
| December | 9.1°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 111 | 17.3 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Hikone in AugustJapan · 15 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 23.1°C · 163 mm rain
- Youkaichi in AugustJapan · 30 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 22.9°C · 148 mm rain
- Ōgaki in AugustJapan · 32 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.0°C · 190 mm rain
- Ōmihachiman in AugustJapan · 32 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 22.8°C · 122 mm rain
- Moriyama in AugustJapan · 44 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.0°C · 103 mm rain
- Gifu in AugustJapan · 45 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 22.4°C · 228 mm rain
- Kōka in AugustJapan · 46 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 22.8°C · 148 mm rain
- Kusatsu in AugustJapan · 49 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 23.1°C · 103 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 Nagahama) is explained once on the Nagahama year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.