Climate averages 1991–2020
Sakata weather
in July.
A warm, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a warm month in Sakata: daytime highs average 25.9°C and nights cool to about 19.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 233 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes July a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 36 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tsuruoka (22 km away). In July its highs average 25.7°C, about as warm as Sakata, with 259 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sakata ranks joint 266th of 303 for the warmest July highs and 205th of 303 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 303 cities is 27.9°C; Sakata is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 233 mm to 184 mm.
The annual picture
July 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, selected | 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
July in nearby cities
- Tsuruoka in JulyJapan · 22 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 20.6°C · 259 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in JulyJapan · 55 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 19.8°C · 202 mm rain
- Yokote in JulyJapan · 75 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 18.7°C · 203 mm rain
- Daisen in JulyJapan · 80 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.7°C · 206 mm rain
- Yamagata in JulyJapan · 88 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 18.4°C · 189 mm rain
- Akita in JulyJapan · 92 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 19.5°C · 223 mm rain
- Ōsaki in JulyJapan · 104 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 19.0°C · 188 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in JulyJapan · 111 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 18.4°C · 156 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.