Climate averages 1991–2020
Tsuruoka weather
in November.
A cool, very wet month: the 8th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Tsuruoka: daytime highs average 12.1°C and nights cool to about 6.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 238 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes November a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 07 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sakata (22 km away). In November its highs average 11.8°C, about as warm as Tsuruoka, with 178 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tsuruoka ranks joint 268th of 303 for the warmest November highs and 303rd of 303 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 303 cities is 14.9°C; Tsuruoka is 2.9°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 6.2°C to 5.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 238 mm to 311 mm.
The annual picture
November 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Sakata in NovemberJapan · 22 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 5.9°C · 178 mm rain
- Yamagata in NovemberJapan · 72 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 95 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in NovemberJapan · 77 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 5.6°C · 204 mm rain
- Yokote in NovemberJapan · 91 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.7°C · 124 mm rain
- Yonezawa in NovemberJapan · 94 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.7°C · 133 mm rain
- Shibata in NovemberJapan · 96 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 5.7°C · 191 mm rain
- Daisen in NovemberJapan · 99 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 2.9°C · 129 mm rain
- Ōsaki in NovemberJapan · 101 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.4°C · 65 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.