Climate averages 1991–2020
Sakata weather
in November.
A cool, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Sakata: daytime highs average 11.8°C and nights cool to about 5.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 178 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes November a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 06 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tsuruoka (22 km away). In November its highs average 12.1°C, about as warm as Sakata, with 238 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sakata ranks 274th of 303 for the warmest November highs and 298th of 303 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 303 cities is 14.9°C; Sakata is 3.2°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 6.2°C to 5.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 178 mm to 216 mm.
The annual picture
November 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 | 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Tsuruoka in NovemberJapan · 22 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 6.8°C · 238 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in NovemberJapan · 55 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 5.6°C · 204 mm rain
- Yokote in NovemberJapan · 75 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.7°C · 124 mm rain
- Daisen in NovemberJapan · 80 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 2.9°C · 129 mm rain
- Yamagata in NovemberJapan · 88 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 95 mm rain
- Akita in NovemberJapan · 92 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 5.5°C · 183 mm rain
- Ōsaki in NovemberJapan · 104 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.4°C · 65 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in NovemberJapan · 111 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 2.9°C · 64 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.