Climate averages 1991–2020
Okinawa weather
in January.
A mild, wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Okinawa: daytime highs average 18.0°C and nights cool to about 15.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 103 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 41 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Uruma (7 km away). In January its highs average 18.5°C, 0.5°C warmer than Okinawa, with 103 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Okinawa ranks 3rd of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 269th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Okinawa is 11.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 18.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 103 mm to 96 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
Okinawa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 18.0°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 103 | 11.7 | 10.711 h |
| February | 18.2°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 96 | 11.5 | 11.311 h |
| March | 19.6°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 128 | 12.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.6°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 150 | 12.7 | 12.813 h |
| May | 24.1°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 207 | 13.8 | 13.413 h |
| June | 26.7°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 218 | 15.8 | 13.814 h |
| July | 28.4°C26.5°C | 26.5°C | 126 | 11.3 | 13.614 h |
| August | 28.4°C26.5°C | 26.5°C | 178 | 14.8 | 13.113 h |
| September | 27.5°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 199 | 14.2 | 12.312 h |
| October | 25.4°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 141 | 11.6 | 11.612 h |
| November | 22.8°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 101 | 10.5 | 10.911 h |
| December | 19.7°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 113 | 11.2 | 10.511 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
- Uruma in JanuaryJapan · 7 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 16.2°C · 103 mm rain
- Naha in JanuaryJapan · 18 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 16.6°C · 103 mm rain
- Keelung in JanuaryTaiwan · 622 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 14.7°C · 178 mm rain
- Yilan, Taiwan in JanuaryTaiwan · 632 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 13.4°C · 190 mm rain
- Kanoya in JanuaryJapan · 635 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 5.0°C · 81 mm rain
- Neihu in JanuaryTaiwan · 638 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 14.2°C · 87 mm rain
- Kagoshima in JanuaryJapan · 640 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 5.9°C · 82 mm rain
- Taipei in JanuaryTaiwan · 645 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 13.6°C · 87 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 Okinawa) is explained once on the Okinawa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Naha lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.