Climate averages 1991–2020
Nakatsu weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Nakatsu: daytime highs average 30.9°C and nights cool to about 24.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 144 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes August a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 24 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yukuhashi (24 km away). In August its highs average 30.5°C, about as warm as Nakatsu, with 132 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Nakatsu ranks joint 26th of 303 for the warmest August highs and joint 141st of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Nakatsu is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.8°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 144 mm to 167 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
Nakatsu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.7°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 61 | 8.4 | 10.210 h |
| February | 10.0°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 73 | 9.2 | 11.011 h |
| March | 13.7°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 112 | 11.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 18.9°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 125 | 10.7 | 13.013 h |
| May | 23.5°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 143 | 11.0 | 13.914 h |
| June | 26.3°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 282 | 15.4 | 14.314 h |
| July | 30.0°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 221 | 16.1 | 14.114 h |
| August, selected | 30.9°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 144 | 14.5 | 13.413 h |
| September | 27.1°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 167 | 13.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.0°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 111 | 8.1 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.6°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 75 | 8.0 | 10.510 h |
| December | 11.0°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 61 | 8.5 | 10.010 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
- Yukuhashi in AugustJapan · 24 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.3°C · 132 mm rain
- Ube in AugustJapan · 39 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 24.7°C · 141 mm rain
- Kitakyushu in AugustJapan · 42 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 24.6°C · 142 mm rain
- Beppu in AugustJapan · 46 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 24.5°C · 184 mm rain
- Iizuka in AugustJapan · 47 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 24.1°C · 142 mm rain
- Ōita in AugustJapan · 56 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 24.2°C · 184 mm rain
- Tsurusaki in AugustJapan · 61 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.5°C · 146 mm rain
- Hōfu in AugustJapan · 61 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.3°C · 135 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 Nakatsu) is explained once on the Nakatsu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.