Climate averages 1991–2020
Tottori-shi weather
in January.
A cold, wet month: the coolest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Tottori-shi: daytime highs average 7.2°C and nights cool to about 2.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 147 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes January a wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 03 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Toyooka (53 km away). In January its highs average 7.1°C, about as warm as Tottori-shi, with 107 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tottori-shi ranks joint 207th of 303 for the warmest January highs and 279th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Tottori-shi is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 7.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 147 mm to 114 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
Tottori-shi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 147 | 22.0 | 10.110 h |
| February | 7.7°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 114 | 17.5 | 10.911 h |
| March | 11.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 133 | 15.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.2°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 114 | 11.8 | 13.113 h |
| May | 20.8°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 136 | 11.7 | 14.014 h |
| June | 24.1°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 165 | 13.9 | 14.515 h |
| July | 27.7°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 197 | 15.8 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.2°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 147 | 13.8 | 13.513 h |
| September | 25.1°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 223 | 15.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.1°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 139 | 12.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.2°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 116 | 14.7 | 10.310 h |
| December | 10.0°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 152 | 19.7 | 9.810 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
- Toyooka in JanuaryJapan · 53 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 107 mm rain
- Tsuyama in JanuaryJapan · 54 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low -0.4°C · 45 mm rain
- Tatsuno in JanuaryJapan · 79 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 2.4°C · 50 mm rain
- Yonago in JanuaryJapan · 82 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 2.5°C · 193 mm rain
- Fukuchiyama in JanuaryJapan · 83 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -0.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Himeji in JanuaryJapan · 87 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 2.0°C · 52 mm rain
- Kakogawachō-honmachi in JanuaryJapan · 98 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 2.2°C · 52 mm rain
- Okayama in JanuaryJapan · 98 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.1°C · 40 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 Tottori-shi) is explained once on the Tottori-shi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.