Climate averages 1991–2020
Tsuruoka weather
in June.
A warm, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
June is a warm month in Tsuruoka: daytime highs average 22.3°C and nights cool to about 16.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 148 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes June a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 50 min on an average June day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sakata (22 km away). In June its highs average 22.7°C, about as warm as Tsuruoka, with 129 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tsuruoka ranks joint 279th of 303 for the warmest June highs and joint 49th of 303 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 303 cities is 24.4°C; Tsuruoka is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From June to July, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 25.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 148 mm to 259 mm.
The annual picture
June 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, selected | 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
June in nearby cities
- Sakata in JuneJapan · 22 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 15.3°C · 129 mm rain
- Yamagata in JuneJapan · 72 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 13.8°C · 119 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in JuneJapan · 77 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 15.2°C · 130 mm rain
- Yokote in JuneJapan · 91 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.1°C · 137 mm rain
- Yonezawa in JuneJapan · 94 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 15.0°C · 155 mm rain
- Shibata in JuneJapan · 96 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.6°C · 155 mm rain
- Daisen in JuneJapan · 99 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 14.1°C · 131 mm rain
- Ōsaki in JuneJapan · 101 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.6°C · 132 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.