Climate averages 1991–2020
Utsunomiya weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Utsunomiya: daytime highs average 21.0°C and nights cool to about 10.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 134 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 06 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kanuma (14 km away). In May its highs average 20.8°C, about as warm as Utsunomiya, with 173 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Utsunomiya ranks joint 211th 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; Utsunomiya is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 23.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 134 mm to 144 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
Utsunomiya climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.2°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 52 | 6.1 | 10.010 h |
| February | 7.2°C-2.3°C | -2.3°C | 52 | 6.7 | 10.811 h |
| March | 11.0°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 97 | 11.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.3°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 109 | 11.7 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 21.0°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 134 | 12.4 | 14.114 h |
| June | 23.7°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 144 | 15.1 | 14.615 h |
| July | 27.1°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 173 | 16.4 | 14.414 h |
| August | 28.2°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 128 | 13.7 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.5°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 165 | 14.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.1°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 164 | 12.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 13.9°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 76 | 8.1 | 10.310 h |
| December | 8.7°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 49 | 6.4 | 9.710 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
- Kanuma in MayJapan · 14 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 11.0°C · 173 mm rain
- Mooka in MayJapan · 19 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 12.0°C · 134 mm rain
- Tochigi in MayJapan · 24 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 12.1°C · 173 mm rain
- Chikusei in MayJapan · 29 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 12.7°C · 134 mm rain
- Oyama in MayJapan · 31 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 12.4°C · 153 mm rain
- Nikkō in MayJapan · 31 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 9.4°C · 176 mm rain
- Ōtawara in MayJapan · 36 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 10.3°C · 142 mm rain
- Sano in MayJapan · 39 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 12.3°C · 152 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 Utsunomiya) is explained once on the Utsunomiya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Mooka lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.