Climate averages 1991–2020

Takasaki weather
in August.

A warm, very wet month: the warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.8°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 20.9°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 225 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Takasaki · average highYear overview

August is a warm month in Takasaki: daytime highs average 27.8°C and nights cool to about 20.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 225 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes August a very wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 33 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Maebashi (10 km away). In August its highs average 28.3°C, about as warm as Takasaki, with 157 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Takasaki ranks joint 252nd of 303 for the warmest August highs and 297th of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Takasaki is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 3.8°C to 24.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 225 mm to 257 mm.

The annual picture

August 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. -5051015202530 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

Takasaki climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Takasaki, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 6.8°C-2.7°C-2.7°C688.510.010 h
February 7.7°C-2.4°C-2.4°C729.710.811 h
March 11.4°C0.6°C0.6°C13114.411.912 h
April 16.7°C5.7°C5.7°C14814.713.113 h
May 21.0°C11.1°C11.1°C17816.014.114 h
June 23.4°C15.7°C15.7°C23920.714.615 h
July 26.9°C19.8°C19.8°C28823.214.414 h
August, selected 27.8°C20.9°C20.9°C22522.013.514 h
September 24.1°C17.5°C17.5°C25719.812.412 h
October 18.9°C11.3°C11.3°C22516.911.311 h
November 14.2°C4.9°C4.9°C859.910.310 h
December 9.5°C0.2°C0.2°C618.39.710 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

August in nearby cities

Distance from Takasaki

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 Takasaki) is explained once on the Takasaki year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.