Climate averages 1991–2020

Shibata weather
in October.

A mild, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 18.9°C Daytime mean, October
Average low 11.5°C Night-time mean, October
Rainfall 170 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Shibata · average highYear overview

October is a mild month in Shibata: daytime highs average 18.9°C and nights cool to about 11.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 170 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes October a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 15 min on an average October day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Niigata (26 km away). In October its highs average 19.1°C, about as warm as Shibata, with 155 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Shibata ranks joint 254th of 303 for the warmest October highs and joint 147th of 303 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 303 cities is 20.4°C; Shibata is 1.5°C cooler than that mean.

From October to November, average highs fall by 6.1°C to 12.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 170 mm to 191 mm.

The annual picture

October in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3000

Averages 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

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Shibata, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 3.1°C-2.1°C-2.1°C21726.89.910 h
February 3.8°C-2.4°C-2.4°C14921.610.811 h
March 7.9°C-0.3°C-0.3°C14520.411.912 h
April 14.7°C4.8°C4.8°C11514.713.213 h
May 20.3°C10.5°C10.5°C12313.214.214 h
June 23.9°C15.6°C15.6°C15513.514.715 h
July 27.1°C20.4°C20.4°C27418.014.515 h
August 28.6°C21.7°C21.7°C19415.513.614 h
September 24.8°C17.8°C17.8°C16015.012.512 h
October, selected 18.9°C11.5°C11.5°C17016.111.211 h
November 12.8°C5.7°C5.7°C19119.710.210 h
December 6.4°C0.7°C0.7°C23325.09.610 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

October in nearby cities

Distance from Shibata

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 limits

How 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.