Climate averages 1991–2020
Sakado weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Sakado: daytime highs average 22.1°C and nights cool to about 12.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 127 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 03 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kawagoe (10 km away). In May its highs average 21.9°C, about as warm as Sakado, with 127 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sakado ranks joint 123rd of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 52nd of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Sakado is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 24.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 127 mm to 162 mm.
The annual picture
May 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
Sakado climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.7°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 57 | 6.0 | 10.010 h |
| February | 8.8°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 54 | 6.5 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.4°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 97 | 11.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.6°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 106 | 10.7 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 22.1°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 127 | 12.2 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.7°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 162 | 14.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 28.3°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 170 | 14.7 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.6°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 128 | 12.3 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.7°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 186 | 14.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.2°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 196 | 12.4 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.1°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 76 | 8.6 | 10.310 h |
| December | 10.2°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 49 | 6.5 | 9.810 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
May in nearby cities
- Kawagoe in MayJapan · 10 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 12.7°C · 127 mm rain
- Sayama in MayJapan · 12 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 12.3°C · 139 mm rain
- Hannō in MayJapan · 13 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 12.8°C · 166 mm rain
- Iruma in MayJapan · 16 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 12.3°C · 166 mm rain
- Kōnosu in MayJapan · 17 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 12.8°C · 127 mm rain
- Tokorozawa in MayJapan · 19 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 12.5°C · 139 mm rain
- Kumagaya in MayJapan · 20 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 12.9°C · 152 mm rain
- Ageo in MayJapan · 20 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 13.0°C · 127 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 Sakado) is explained once on the Sakado year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kawagoe, Ageo and Kōnosu lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.