Climate averages 1991–2020
Nagahama weather
in January.
A cold, wet month: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Nagahama: daytime highs average 6.3°C and nights cool to about 0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 113 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes January a wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 04 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hikone (15 km away). In January its highs average 6.7°C, about as warm as Nagahama, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Nagahama ranks joint 234th of 303 for the warmest January highs and 276th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Nagahama is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 7.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 113 mm to 102 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
Nagahama climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Hikone in JanuaryJapan · 15 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 0.7°C · 74 mm rain
- Youkaichi in JanuaryJapan · 30 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -0.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Ōgaki in JanuaryJapan · 32 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Ōmihachiman in JanuaryJapan · 32 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 0.0°C · 81 mm rain
- Moriyama in JanuaryJapan · 44 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 0.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Gifu in JanuaryJapan · 45 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low -1.4°C · 78 mm rain
- Kōka in JanuaryJapan · 46 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -0.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Kusatsu in JanuaryJapan · 49 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -0.2°C · 61 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.