Climate averages 1991–2020
Yokohama weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Yokohama: daytime highs average 11.0°C and nights cool to about 5.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 49 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kawasaki (11 km away). In December its highs average 11.2°C, about as warm as Yokohama, with 63 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Yokohama ranks joint 68th of 303 for the warmest December highs and joint 109th of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Yokohama is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 8.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 63 mm to 72 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Yokohama climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.6°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 72 | 6.9 | 10.110 h |
| February | 9.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 71 | 7.9 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.0°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 127 | 12.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.2°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 115 | 11.8 | 13.113 h |
| May | 20.1°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 128 | 11.1 | 14.014 h |
| June | 22.8°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 164 | 12.7 | 14.515 h |
| July | 26.3°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 141 | 12.1 | 14.314 h |
| August | 27.7°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 102 | 10.6 | 13.513 h |
| September | 25.0°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 175 | 13.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.2°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 210 | 12.8 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.6°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 97 | 10.0 | 10.310 h |
| December, selected | 11.0°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 63 | 7.4 | 9.810 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
December in nearby cities
- Kawasaki in DecemberJapan · 11 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 4.5°C · 63 mm rain
- Ōta in DecemberJapan · 15 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 3.8°C · 63 mm rain
- Yokosuka in DecemberJapan · 17 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 7.0°C · 73 mm rain
- Fujisawa in DecemberJapan · 18 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 6.1°C · 82 mm rain
- Minamirinkan in DecemberJapan · 20 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 2.7°C · 67 mm rain
- Machida in DecemberJapan · 22 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 3.1°C · 67 mm rain
- Komae in DecemberJapan · 23 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 3.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Chigasaki in DecemberJapan · 25 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 5.9°C · 82 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 Yokohama) is explained once on the Yokohama year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kawasaki and Ōta lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.