Climate averages 1991–2020
Niigata weather
in November.
A cool, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Niigata: daytime highs average 13.2°C and nights cool to about 7.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 164 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes November a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 10 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shibata (26 km away). In November its highs average 12.8°C, about as warm as Niigata, with 191 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Niigata ranks 256th of 303 for the warmest November highs and 289th of 303 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 303 cities is 14.9°C; Niigata is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 5.8°C to 7.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 164 mm to 195 mm.
The annual picture
November 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
Niigata climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.2°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 178 | 26.6 | 9.910 h |
| February | 4.7°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 115 | 21.3 | 10.811 h |
| March | 8.6°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 110 | 18.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.1°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 90 | 12.6 | 13.213 h |
| May | 19.4°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 99 | 11.8 | 14.214 h |
| June | 23.1°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 123 | 11.2 | 14.715 h |
| July | 26.6°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 226 | 15.2 | 14.515 h |
| August | 28.3°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 159 | 12.9 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.7°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 146 | 14.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 19.1°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 155 | 15.8 | 11.211 h |
| November, selected | 13.2°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 164 | 19.7 | 10.210 h |
| December | 7.5°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 195 | 25.4 | 9.610 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
- Shibata in NovemberJapan · 26 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 5.7°C · 191 mm rain
- Tsubame in NovemberJapan · 30 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 6.6°C · 156 mm rain
- Sanjō in NovemberJapan · 35 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 5.6°C · 153 mm rain
- Nagaoka in NovemberJapan · 55 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 5.3°C · 145 mm rain
- Kashiwazaki in NovemberJapan · 75 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 6.0°C · 159 mm rain
- Aizu-Wakamatsu in NovemberJapan · 93 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 4.4°C · 82 mm rain
- Yonezawa in NovemberJapan · 94 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.7°C · 133 mm rain
- Jōetsu in NovemberJapan · 112 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 6.4°C · 180 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 Niigata) is explained once on the Niigata year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.