Climate averages 1991–2020
Tanabe weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Tanabe: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 24.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 146 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 24 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Minato (57 km away). In August its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Tanabe, with 114 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tanabe ranks joint 147th of 303 for the warmest August highs and joint 149th of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Tanabe is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.5°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 146 mm to 215 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Tanabe climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.0°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 95 | 11.7 | 10.210 h |
| February | 10.8°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 106 | 11.3 | 11.011 h |
| March | 14.0°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 151 | 12.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 18.3°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 158 | 11.1 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.1°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 176 | 11.0 | 13.914 h |
| June | 24.9°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 293 | 15.4 | 14.414 h |
| July | 28.3°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 246 | 14.4 | 14.214 h |
| August, selected | 29.6°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 146 | 13.3 | 13.413 h |
| September | 27.1°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 215 | 13.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.5°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 217 | 11.2 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.6°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 127 | 8.8 | 10.410 h |
| December | 12.5°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 97 | 10.1 | 10.010 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
- Minato in AugustJapan · 57 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 24.3°C · 114 mm rain
- Anan in AugustJapan · 69 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 25.2°C · 113 mm rain
- Izumisano in AugustJapan · 76 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.3°C · 107 mm rain
- Kawachi-Nagano in AugustJapan · 81 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 22.9°C · 100 mm rain
- Kishiwada in AugustJapan · 82 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 23.5°C · 107 mm rain
- Tokushima in AugustJapan · 83 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.6°C · 203 mm rain
- Tondabayashichō in AugustJapan · 88 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 23.4°C · 100 mm rain
- Kashiba in AugustJapan · 95 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.3°C · 126 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 Tanabe) is explained once on the Tanabe year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.