Climate averages 1991–2020
Tanabe weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Tanabe: daytime highs average 10.0°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 95 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 11 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Minato (57 km away). In January its highs average 8.7°C, 1.4°C cooler than Tanabe, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tanabe ranks joint 13th of 303 for the warmest January highs and joint 255th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Tanabe is 3.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 10.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 95 mm to 106 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
Tanabe climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Minato in JanuaryJapan · 57 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 3.1°C · 83 mm rain
- Anan in JanuaryJapan · 69 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 5.3°C · 78 mm rain
- Izumisano in JanuaryJapan · 76 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 1.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Kawachi-Nagano in JanuaryJapan · 81 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low -0.5°C · 64 mm rain
- Kishiwada in JanuaryJapan · 82 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 0.2°C · 61 mm rain
- Tokushima in JanuaryJapan · 83 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 3.6°C · 71 mm rain
- Tondabayashichō in JanuaryJapan · 88 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.2°C · 64 mm rain
- Kashiba in JanuaryJapan · 95 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -0.4°C · 70 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.