Climate averages 1991–2020
Sakata weather
in June.
A warm, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
June is a warm month in Sakata: daytime highs average 22.7°C and nights cool to about 15.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 129 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes June a wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 51 min on an average June day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tsuruoka (22 km away). In June its highs average 22.3°C, about as warm as Sakata, with 148 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sakata ranks joint 264th of 303 for the warmest June highs and joint 31st of 303 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 303 cities is 24.4°C; Sakata is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From June to July, average highs rise by 3.1°C to 25.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 129 mm to 233 mm.
The annual picture
June 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, selected | 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
June in nearby cities
- Tsuruoka in JuneJapan · 22 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 16.1°C · 148 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in JuneJapan · 55 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 15.2°C · 130 mm rain
- Yokote in JuneJapan · 75 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.1°C · 137 mm rain
- Daisen in JuneJapan · 80 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 14.1°C · 131 mm rain
- Yamagata in JuneJapan · 88 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 13.8°C · 119 mm rain
- Akita in JuneJapan · 92 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 14.9°C · 136 mm rain
- Ōsaki in JuneJapan · 104 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.6°C · 132 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in JuneJapan · 111 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.0°C · 115 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.