Climate averages 1991–2020

Nagaoka weather
in November.

A cool, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 13.3°C Daytime mean, November
Average low 5.3°C Night-time mean, November
Rainfall 145 mm 18 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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November is a cool month in Nagaoka: daytime highs average 13.3°C and nights cool to about 5.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 145 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes November a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 12 min on an average November day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Sanjō (21 km away). In November its highs average 13.3°C, about as warm as Nagaoka, with 153 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Nagaoka ranks joint 250th of 303 for the warmest November highs and 280th of 303 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 303 cities is 14.9°C; Nagaoka is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.

From November to December, average highs fall by 6.3°C to 7.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 145 mm to 181 mm.

The annual picture

November in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Nagaoka climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Nagaoka, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 3.8°C-2.5°C-2.5°C17925.19.910 h
February 4.5°C-2.7°C-2.7°C12720.610.811 h
March 8.9°C-0.4°C-0.4°C12619.611.912 h
April 15.7°C4.8°C4.8°C9414.313.113 h
May 21.4°C10.6°C10.6°C9411.914.214 h
June 25.1°C15.7°C15.7°C11512.514.715 h
July 28.1°C20.4°C20.4°C20716.114.514 h
August 29.8°C21.6°C21.6°C14614.113.614 h
September 25.6°C17.7°C17.7°C14414.012.512 h
October 19.5°C11.3°C11.3°C14314.811.311 h
November, selected 13.3°C5.3°C5.3°C14518.210.210 h
December 7.0°C0.2°C0.2°C18123.79.610 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

November in nearby cities

Distance from Nagaoka

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Nagaoka) is explained once on the Nagaoka year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.