Climate averages 1991–2020
Sakata weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Sakata: daytime highs average 18.8°C and nights cool to about 10.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 116 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 17 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tsuruoka (22 km away). In May its highs average 18.6°C, about as warm as Sakata, with 134 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sakata ranks 278th of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 36th of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Sakata is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 22.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 116 mm to 129 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
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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Tsuruoka in MayJapan · 22 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 11.4°C · 134 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in MayJapan · 55 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 10.3°C · 123 mm rain
- Yokote in MayJapan · 75 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 8.9°C · 124 mm rain
- Daisen in MayJapan · 80 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 8.9°C · 121 mm rain
- Yamagata in MayJapan · 88 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 8.4°C · 91 mm rain
- Akita in MayJapan · 92 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 10.0°C · 130 mm rain
- Ōsaki in MayJapan · 104 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 9.8°C · 109 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in MayJapan · 111 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 9.2°C · 104 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.