Climate averages 1991–2020
Sakata weather
in April.
A cool, wet month: the 7th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Sakata: daytime highs average 13.2°C and nights cool to about 4.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 111 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes April a wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 12 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tsuruoka (22 km away). In April its highs average 12.9°C, about as warm as Sakata, with 132 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sakata ranks joint 276th of 303 for the warmest April highs and joint 65th of 303 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 303 cities is 16.7°C; Sakata is 3.5°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.6°C to 18.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 111 mm to 116 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Sakata climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.4°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 189 | 26.3 | 9.810 h |
| February | 2.9°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 131 | 21.8 | 10.711 h |
| March | 6.6°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 126 | 18.9 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 13.2°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 111 | 14.3 | 13.213 h |
| May | 18.8°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 116 | 12.8 | 14.314 h |
| June | 22.7°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 129 | 11.5 | 14.815 h |
| July | 25.9°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 233 | 16.1 | 14.615 h |
| August | 27.4°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 184 | 14.6 | 13.714 h |
| September | 23.8°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 163 | 14.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.9°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 165 | 15.6 | 11.211 h |
| November | 11.8°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 178 | 19.9 | 10.110 h |
| December | 5.6°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 216 | 25.1 | 9.59 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
April in nearby cities
- Tsuruoka in AprilJapan · 22 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 5.6°C · 132 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in AprilJapan · 55 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 4.8°C · 111 mm rain
- Yokote in AprilJapan · 75 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 2.7°C · 115 mm rain
- Daisen in AprilJapan · 80 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 2.9°C · 112 mm rain
- Yamagata in AprilJapan · 88 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 2.0°C · 94 mm rain
- Akita in AprilJapan · 92 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 4.7°C · 111 mm rain
- Ōsaki in AprilJapan · 104 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 3.9°C · 97 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in AprilJapan · 111 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 3.5°C · 92 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 Sakata) is explained once on the Sakata year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.