Climate averages 1991–2020
Tsuruoka weather
in September.
A warm, very wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a warm month in Tsuruoka: daytime highs average 23.8°C and nights cool to about 18.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 180 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes September a very wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 29 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sakata (22 km away). In September its highs average 23.8°C, about as warm as Tsuruoka, with 163 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Tsuruoka ranks joint 263rd of 303 for the warmest September highs and joint 121st of 303 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 303 cities is 25.7°C; Tsuruoka is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 5.7°C to 18.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 180 mm to 203 mm.
The annual picture
September 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, selected | 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
September in nearby cities
- Sakata in SeptemberJapan · 22 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 17.8°C · 163 mm rain
- Yamagata in SeptemberJapan · 72 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 15.5°C · 125 mm rain
- Yurihonjō in SeptemberJapan · 77 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 17.6°C · 185 mm rain
- Yokote in SeptemberJapan · 91 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 15.8°C · 156 mm rain
- Yonezawa in SeptemberJapan · 94 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 16.7°C · 155 mm rain
- Shibata in SeptemberJapan · 96 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 17.8°C · 160 mm rain
- Daisen in SeptemberJapan · 99 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.8°C · 152 mm rain
- Ōsaki in SeptemberJapan · 101 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 16.7°C · 168 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.