Climate averages 1991–2020
Sakata weather
in September.
A warm, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a warm month in Sakata: daytime highs average 23.8°C and nights cool to about 17.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 163 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes September a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 29 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tsuruoka (22 km away). In September its highs average 23.8°C, about as warm as Sakata, with 180 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sakata ranks joint 263rd of 303 for the warmest September highs and joint 54th of 303 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 303 cities is 25.7°C; Sakata is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 5.8°C to 17.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 163 mm to 165 mm.
The annual picture
September 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, selected | 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
September in nearby cities
- Tsuruoka in SeptemberJapan · 22 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 18.5°C · 180 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in SeptemberJapan · 55 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 17.6°C · 185 mm rain
- Yokote in SeptemberJapan · 75 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 15.8°C · 156 mm rain
- Daisen in SeptemberJapan · 80 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.8°C · 152 mm rain
- Yamagata in SeptemberJapan · 88 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 15.5°C · 125 mm rain
- Akita in SeptemberJapan · 92 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 17.5°C · 190 mm rain
- Ōsaki in SeptemberJapan · 104 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 16.7°C · 168 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in SeptemberJapan · 111 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 16.1°C · 149 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.