Climate averages 1991–2020
Sendai weather
in November.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Sendai: daytime highs average 12.6°C and nights cool to about 5.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 09 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Natori-shi (11 km away). In November its highs average 13.1°C, about as warm as Sendai, with 67 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Sendai ranks 264th of 303 for the warmest November highs and joint 9th of 303 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 303 cities is 14.9°C; Sendai is 2.3°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 5.7°C to 6.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 63 mm to 58 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
Sendai climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.1°C-2.6°C | -2.6°C | 63 | 11.1 | 9.810 h |
| February | 4.9°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 49 | 9.3 | 10.711 h |
| March | 8.4°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 87 | 11.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.8°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 94 | 11.2 | 13.213 h |
| May | 18.3°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 103 | 11.4 | 14.214 h |
| June | 21.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 129 | 13.4 | 14.815 h |
| July | 24.7°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 187 | 17.3 | 14.515 h |
| August | 26.2°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 169 | 16.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 23.3°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 167 | 14.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.2°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 141 | 11.0 | 11.211 h |
| November, selected | 12.6°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 63 | 9.3 | 10.110 h |
| December | 6.9°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 58 | 11.0 | 9.610 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
- Natori-shi in NovemberJapan · 11 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 6.5°C · 67 mm rain
- Ōsaki in NovemberJapan · 37 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.4°C · 65 mm rain
- Ishinomaki in NovemberJapan · 41 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 7.6°C · 64 mm rain
- Yamagata in NovemberJapan · 44 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 95 mm rain
- Tome in NovemberJapan · 55 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.9°C · 58 mm rain
- Fukushima in NovemberJapan · 67 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 3.9°C · 67 mm rain
- Ichinoseki in NovemberJapan · 76 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 2.9°C · 64 mm rain
- Yonezawa in NovemberJapan · 77 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.7°C · 133 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 Sendai) is explained once on the Sendai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.