Climate averages 1991–2020
Tsuruoka weather
in December.
A cold, very wet month: the 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Tsuruoka: daytime highs average 5.9°C and nights cool to about 1.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 311 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes December a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 31 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sakata (22 km away). In December its highs average 5.6°C, about as warm as Tsuruoka, with 216 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tsuruoka ranks 270th of 303 for the warmest December highs and 303rd of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Tsuruoka is 3.6°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 3.1°C to 2.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 311 mm to 285 mm.
The annual picture
December 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 | 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, selected | 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
December in nearby cities
- Sakata in DecemberJapan · 22 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low 1.0°C · 216 mm rain
- Yamagata in DecemberJapan · 72 kmHigh 3.9°C · Low -3.0°C · 120 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in DecemberJapan · 77 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low 0.4°C · 250 mm rain
- Yokote in DecemberJapan · 91 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -2.9°C · 133 mm rain
- Yonezawa in DecemberJapan · 94 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low -1.6°C · 181 mm rain
- Shibata in DecemberJapan · 96 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 0.7°C · 233 mm rain
- Daisen in DecemberJapan · 99 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -2.7°C · 130 mm rain
- Ōsaki in DecemberJapan · 101 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low -1.5°C · 58 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.