Climate averages 1991–2020
Tsuruoka weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Tsuruoka: daytime highs average 18.6°C and nights cool to about 11.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 134 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes May a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 16 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sakata (22 km away). In May its highs average 18.8°C, about as warm as Tsuruoka, with 116 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tsuruoka ranks 282nd of 303 for the warmest May highs and joint 113th of 303 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 303 cities is 21.3°C; Tsuruoka is 2.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 22.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 134 mm to 148 mm.
The annual picture
May 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Sakata in MayJapan · 22 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 10.2°C · 116 mm rain
- Yamagata in MayJapan · 72 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 8.4°C · 91 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in MayJapan · 77 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 10.3°C · 123 mm rain
- Yokote in MayJapan · 91 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 8.9°C · 124 mm rain
- Yonezawa in MayJapan · 94 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 9.8°C · 116 mm rain
- Shibata in MayJapan · 96 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 10.5°C · 123 mm rain
- Daisen in MayJapan · 99 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 8.9°C · 121 mm rain
- Ōsaki in MayJapan · 101 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 9.8°C · 109 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.