Climate averages 1991–2020
Ōtsu weather
in November.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a mild month in Ōtsu: daytime highs average 15.0°C and nights cool to about 7.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 84 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 22 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kusatsu (9 km away). In November its highs average 15.3°C, about as warm as Ōtsu, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Ōtsu ranks joint 204th of 303 for the warmest November highs and joint 91st of 303 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 303 cities is 14.9°C; Ōtsu is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 5.6°C to 9.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 84 mm to 65 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
Ōtsu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.0°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 64 | 7.9 | 10.110 h |
| February | 8.0°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 71 | 9.0 | 10.911 h |
| March | 11.8°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 122 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.3°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 133 | 11.7 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.1°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 153 | 11.6 | 14.014 h |
| June | 25.4°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 205 | 14.6 | 14.514 h |
| July | 29.0°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 239 | 17.6 | 14.314 h |
| August | 30.5°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 140 | 13.5 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.3°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 187 | 12.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.6°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 161 | 9.9 | 11.311 h |
| November, selected | 15.0°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 84 | 7.6 | 10.410 h |
| December | 9.5°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 65 | 7.6 | 9.910 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
- Kusatsu in NovemberJapan · 9 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 7.3°C · 74 mm rain
- Kyoto in NovemberJapan · 11 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 7.4°C · 84 mm rain
- Moriyama in NovemberJapan · 13 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.6°C · 74 mm rain
- Uji in NovemberJapan · 13 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 7.4°C · 84 mm rain
- Kōtari in NovemberJapan · 17 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.4°C · 84 mm rain
- Jōyō in NovemberJapan · 18 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 7.0°C · 75 mm rain
- Ōmihachiman in NovemberJapan · 25 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 7.5°C · 81 mm rain
- Kameoka in NovemberJapan · 26 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 7.0°C · 84 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 Ōtsu) is explained once on the Ōtsu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kyoto, Uji and Kōtari lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.