Climate averages 1991–2020
Shibata weather
in January.
A cold, very wet month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Shibata: daytime highs average 3.1°C and nights cool to about -2.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 217 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 51 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Niigata (26 km away). In January its highs average 4.2°C, 1.1°C warmer than Shibata, with 178 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Shibata ranks 269th of 303 for the warmest January highs and 298th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Shibata is 3.8°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 3.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 217 mm to 149 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Shibata climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.1°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 217 | 26.8 | 9.910 h |
| February | 3.8°C-2.4°C | -2.4°C | 149 | 21.6 | 10.811 h |
| March | 7.9°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 145 | 20.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.7°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 115 | 14.7 | 13.213 h |
| May | 20.3°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 123 | 13.2 | 14.214 h |
| June | 23.9°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 155 | 13.5 | 14.715 h |
| July | 27.1°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 274 | 18.0 | 14.515 h |
| August | 28.6°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 194 | 15.5 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.8°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 160 | 15.0 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.9°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 170 | 16.1 | 11.211 h |
| November | 12.8°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 191 | 19.7 | 10.210 h |
| December | 6.4°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 233 | 25.0 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Niigata in JanuaryJapan · 26 kmHigh 4.2°C · Low 0.0°C · 178 mm rain
- Tsubame in JanuaryJapan · 48 kmHigh 4.0°C · Low -0.9°C · 172 mm rain
- Sanjō in JanuaryJapan · 50 kmHigh 3.9°C · Low -2.0°C · 206 mm rain
- Yonezawa in JanuaryJapan · 69 kmHigh 1.7°C · Low -4.6°C · 190 mm precipitation
- Nagaoka in JanuaryJapan · 70 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low -2.5°C · 179 mm rain
- Aizu-Wakamatsu in JanuaryJapan · 74 kmHigh 2.0°C · Low -3.6°C · 99 mm rain
- Kashiwazaki in JanuaryJapan · 95 kmHigh 4.1°C · Low -1.6°C · 216 mm rain
- Yamagata in JanuaryJapan · 96 kmHigh 0.8°C · Low -6.4°C · 126 mm precipitation
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 Shibata) is explained once on the Shibata year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.