Climate averages 1991–2020
Sakata weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Sakata: daytime highs average 27.4°C and nights cool to about 21.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 184 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 41 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tsuruoka (22 km away). In August its highs average 27.3°C, about as warm as Sakata, with 203 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sakata ranks joint 266th of 303 for the warmest August highs and joint 264th of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Sakata is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.6°C to 23.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 184 mm to 163 mm.
The annual picture
August 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 | 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, selected | 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
August in nearby cities
- Tsuruoka in AugustJapan · 22 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 22.0°C · 203 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in AugustJapan · 55 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 21.3°C · 187 mm rain
- Yokote in AugustJapan · 75 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 19.9°C · 180 mm rain
- Daisen in AugustJapan · 80 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 20.0°C · 173 mm rain
- Yamagata in AugustJapan · 88 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.5°C · 146 mm rain
- Akita in AugustJapan · 92 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 21.1°C · 203 mm rain
- Ōsaki in AugustJapan · 104 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 20.4°C · 165 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in AugustJapan · 111 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.8°C · 142 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.