Climate averages 1991–2020
Sano weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Sano: daytime highs average 9.8°C and nights cool to about 0.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 51 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 44 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tatebayashi (9 km away). In December its highs average 9.8°C, about as warm as Sano, with 51 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sano ranks joint 196th of 303 for the warmest December highs and joint 20th of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Sano is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 7.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 51 mm to 55 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Sano climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.3°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 55 | 6.1 | 10.010 h |
| February | 8.4°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 53 | 7.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 12.2°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 104 | 11.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.5°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 121 | 12.2 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.2°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 152 | 13.6 | 14.114 h |
| June | 24.8°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 187 | 16.7 | 14.615 h |
| July | 28.2°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 220 | 18.8 | 14.414 h |
| August | 29.5°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 171 | 16.4 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.7°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 221 | 16.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.2°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 206 | 13.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.9°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 83 | 8.6 | 10.310 h |
| December, selected | 9.8°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 51 | 6.7 | 9.710 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
December in nearby cities
- Tatebayashi in DecemberJapan · 9 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 0.7°C · 51 mm rain
- Tochigi in DecemberJapan · 15 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 0.4°C · 55 mm rain
- Koga in DecemberJapan · 19 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 0.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Ōta, Japan in DecemberJapan · 20 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.6°C · 47 mm rain
- Oyama in DecemberJapan · 20 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 0.4°C · 54 mm rain
- Kazo in DecemberJapan · 22 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 0.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Kiryū in DecemberJapan · 24 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 0.6°C · 45 mm rain
- Kumagaya in DecemberJapan · 27 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 1.2°C · 51 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 Sano) is explained once on the Sano year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kumagaya and Tatebayashi lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.