Climate averages 1991–2020
Tsuruoka weather
in July.
A warm, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a warm month in Tsuruoka: daytime highs average 25.7°C and nights cool to about 20.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 259 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes July a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 35 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sakata (22 km away). In July its highs average 25.9°C, about as warm as Tsuruoka, with 233 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tsuruoka ranks joint 274th of 303 for the warmest July highs and joint 238th of 303 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 303 cities is 27.9°C; Tsuruoka is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 259 mm to 203 mm.
The annual picture
July 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, selected | 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
July in nearby cities
- Sakata in JulyJapan · 22 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 19.9°C · 233 mm rain
- Yamagata in JulyJapan · 72 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 18.4°C · 189 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in JulyJapan · 77 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 19.8°C · 202 mm rain
- Yokote in JulyJapan · 91 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 18.7°C · 203 mm rain
- Yonezawa in JulyJapan · 94 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 19.4°C · 241 mm rain
- Shibata in JulyJapan · 96 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 20.4°C · 274 mm rain
- Daisen in JulyJapan · 99 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.7°C · 206 mm rain
- Ōsaki in JulyJapan · 101 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 19.0°C · 188 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.