Climate averages 1991–2020
Sayama weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Sayama: daytime highs average 21.6°C and nights cool to about 12.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 139 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 02 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Iruma (6 km away). In May its highs average 21.2°C, about as warm as Sayama, with 166 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sayama ranks joint 170th of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 132nd of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Sayama is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 24.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 139 mm to 177 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
Sayama climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.5°C-2.6°C | -2.6°C | 69 | 7.5 | 10.010 h |
| February | 8.5°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 66 | 8.5 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.0°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 120 | 13.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.2°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 123 | 12.8 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 21.6°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 139 | 13.1 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.2°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 177 | 15.4 | 14.515 h |
| July | 27.9°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 182 | 16.4 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.1°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 142 | 15.4 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.3°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 204 | 14.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.9°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 215 | 13.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.8°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 92 | 10.2 | 10.310 h |
| December | 10.0°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 61 | 7.4 | 9.810 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
- Iruma in MayJapan · 6 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 12.3°C · 166 mm rain
- Tokorozawa in MayJapan · 8 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 12.5°C · 139 mm rain
- Hannō in MayJapan · 8 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 12.8°C · 166 mm rain
- Kawagoe in MayJapan · 9 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 12.7°C · 127 mm rain
- Sakado in MayJapan · 12 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 12.8°C · 127 mm rain
- Niiza in MayJapan · 14 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 13.4°C · 139 mm rain
- Ōme in MayJapan · 17 kmHigh 21.7°C · Low 12.7°C · 166 mm rain
- Hino in MayJapan · 20 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 12.6°C · 139 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 Sayama) is explained once on the Sayama year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Tokorozawa, Fuchū and Hino lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.