Climate averages 1991–2020
Tsuruoka weather
in April.
A cool, wet month: the 7th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Tsuruoka: daytime highs average 12.9°C and nights cool to about 5.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 132 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes April a wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 11 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sakata (22 km away). In April its highs average 13.2°C, about as warm as Tsuruoka, with 111 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tsuruoka ranks 282nd of 303 for the warmest April highs and joint 189th of 303 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 303 cities is 16.7°C; Tsuruoka is 3.9°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.7°C to 18.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 132 mm to 134 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Tsuruoka climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.8°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 285 | 27.7 | 9.810 h |
| February | 3.3°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 192 | 23.1 | 10.711 h |
| March | 6.5°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 169 | 20.6 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 12.9°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 132 | 15.4 | 13.213 h |
| May | 18.6°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 134 | 13.7 | 14.314 h |
| June | 22.3°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 148 | 12.8 | 14.815 h |
| July | 25.7°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 259 | 17.2 | 14.615 h |
| August | 27.3°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 203 | 15.7 | 13.714 h |
| September | 23.8°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 180 | 15.5 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.1°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 203 | 16.6 | 11.211 h |
| November | 12.1°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 238 | 20.9 | 10.110 h |
| December | 5.9°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 311 | 26.3 | 9.510 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
April in nearby cities
- Sakata in AprilJapan · 22 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 4.6°C · 111 mm rain
- Yamagata in AprilJapan · 72 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 2.0°C · 94 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in AprilJapan · 77 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 4.8°C · 111 mm rain
- Yokote in AprilJapan · 91 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 2.7°C · 115 mm rain
- Yonezawa in AprilJapan · 94 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 3.2°C · 115 mm rain
- Shibata in AprilJapan · 96 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 4.8°C · 115 mm rain
- Daisen in AprilJapan · 99 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 2.9°C · 112 mm rain
- Ōsaki in AprilJapan · 101 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 3.9°C · 97 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 Tsuruoka) is explained once on the Tsuruoka year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.