Climate averages 1991–2020
Ōtawara weather
in June.
A warm, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
June is a warm month in Ōtawara: daytime highs average 23.5°C and nights cool to about 15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 163 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes June a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 38 min on an average June day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nasushiobara (13 km away). In June its highs average 23.4°C, about as warm as Ōtawara, with 176 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Ōtawara ranks joint 237th of 303 for the warmest June highs and 91st of 303 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 303 cities is 24.4°C; Ōtawara is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From June to July, average highs rise by 3.3°C to 26.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 163 mm to 212 mm.
The annual picture
June 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
Ōtawara climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 54 | 7.1 | 9.910 h |
| February | 6.2°C-2.6°C | -2.6°C | 54 | 7.6 | 10.811 h |
| March | 10.0°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 104 | 12.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.7°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 121 | 12.4 | 13.113 h |
| May | 20.6°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 142 | 13.4 | 14.114 h |
| June, selected | 23.5°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 163 | 16.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 26.8°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 212 | 19.7 | 14.414 h |
| August | 27.9°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 162 | 16.7 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.0°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 193 | 15.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.6°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 169 | 12.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 13.3°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 80 | 8.4 | 10.210 h |
| December | 8.1°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 51 | 6.8 | 9.710 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
June in nearby cities
- Nasushiobara in JuneJapan · 13 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 15.1°C · 176 mm rain
- Utsunomiya in JuneJapan · 36 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 15.6°C · 144 mm rain
- Nikkō in JuneJapan · 39 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 14.4°C · 228 mm rain
- Kanuma in JuneJapan · 44 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 15.8°C · 204 mm rain
- Mooka in JuneJapan · 48 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 16.6°C · 144 mm rain
- Sukagawa in JuneJapan · 56 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.9°C · 131 mm rain
- Kasama, Japan in JuneJapan · 58 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 16.1°C · 152 mm rain
- Tochigi in JuneJapan · 60 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 16.8°C · 204 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 Ōtawara) is explained once on the Ōtawara year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.