Climate averages 1991–2020
Tsuruoka weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: the warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Tsuruoka: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 22.0°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 joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 40 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sakata (22 km away). In August its highs average 27.4°C, about as warm as Tsuruoka, with 184 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tsuruoka ranks 270th 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; Tsuruoka is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.5°C to 23.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 203 mm to 180 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
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 | 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, selected | 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
August in nearby cities
- Sakata in AugustJapan · 22 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 21.4°C · 184 mm rain
- Yamagata in AugustJapan · 72 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.5°C · 146 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in AugustJapan · 77 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 21.3°C · 187 mm rain
- Yokote in AugustJapan · 91 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 19.9°C · 180 mm rain
- Yonezawa in AugustJapan · 94 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 20.6°C · 183 mm rain
- Shibata in AugustJapan · 96 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 21.7°C · 194 mm rain
- Daisen in AugustJapan · 99 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 20.0°C · 173 mm rain
- Ōsaki in AugustJapan · 101 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 20.4°C · 165 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.