Climate averages 1991–2020
Tokushima weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Tokushima: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 24.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 203 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 25 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Anan (18 km away). In August its highs average 28.7°C, 1.0°C cooler than Tokushima, with 113 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tokushima ranks joint 147th of 303 for the warmest August highs and joint 285th of 303 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 303 cities is 29.2°C; Tokushima is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.4°C to 26.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 203 mm to 286 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
Tokushima climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 71 | 7.3 | 10.210 h |
| February | 10.1°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 81 | 8.6 | 10.911 h |
| March | 13.3°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 128 | 11.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 17.9°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 151 | 11.3 | 13.013 h |
| May | 21.9°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 191 | 12.9 | 13.914 h |
| June | 24.8°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 277 | 16.8 | 14.414 h |
| July | 28.5°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 261 | 17.8 | 14.214 h |
| August, selected | 29.6°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 203 | 15.9 | 13.413 h |
| September | 26.3°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 286 | 15.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.3°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 231 | 11.7 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.4°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 105 | 8.2 | 10.410 h |
| December | 11.5°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 81 | 7.0 | 9.910 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
- Anan in AugustJapan · 18 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 25.2°C · 113 mm rain
- Takamatsu in AugustJapan · 56 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.6°C · 121 mm rain
- Minato in AugustJapan · 56 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 24.3°C · 114 mm rain
- Marugame in AugustJapan · 76 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 24.5°C · 106 mm rain
- Akashi in AugustJapan · 77 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.7°C · 117 mm rain
- Izumisano in AugustJapan · 79 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.3°C · 107 mm rain
- Kakogawachō-honmachi in AugustJapan · 82 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 24.3°C · 114 mm rain
- Tanabe in AugustJapan · 83 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.9°C · 146 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 Tokushima) is explained once on the Tokushima year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.