Climate averages 1991–2020
Shibukawa 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 Shibukawa: daytime highs average 8.4°C and nights cool to about 0.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 59 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 43 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Maebashi (12 km away). In December its highs average 9.3°C, 0.9°C warmer than Shibukawa, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Shibukawa ranks joint 241st of 303 for the warmest December highs and joint 65th of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Shibukawa is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 3.1°C to 5.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 59 mm to 68 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
Shibukawa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.2°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 68 | 11.0 | 10.010 h |
| February | 6.1°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 69 | 11.2 | 10.811 h |
| March | 10.2°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 118 | 14.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.3°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 125 | 14.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.0°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 141 | 14.8 | 14.114 h |
| June | 23.7°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 178 | 17.4 | 14.615 h |
| July | 27.3°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 218 | 20.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 28.2°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 157 | 18.1 | 13.514 h |
| September | 24.4°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 201 | 17.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.0°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 180 | 14.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 13.8°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 74 | 9.6 | 10.310 h |
| December, selected | 8.4°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 59 | 10.8 | 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
- Maebashi in DecemberJapan · 12 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 0.4°C · 59 mm rain
- Takasaki in DecemberJapan · 17 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 0.2°C · 61 mm rain
- Isesaki in DecemberJapan · 26 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.4°C · 47 mm rain
- Kiryū in DecemberJapan · 31 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 0.6°C · 45 mm rain
- Honjō in DecemberJapan · 32 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 0.8°C · 47 mm rain
- Ōta, Japan in DecemberJapan · 39 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.6°C · 47 mm rain
- Kumagaya in DecemberJapan · 52 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 1.2°C · 51 mm rain
- Tatebayashi in DecemberJapan · 54 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 0.7°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 Shibukawa) is explained once on the Shibukawa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Maebashi lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.