Climate averages 1991–2020

Yokosuka weather
in April.

A mild, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 16.1°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 11.3°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 126 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Yokosuka · average highYear overview

April is a mild month in Yokosuka: daytime highs average 16.1°C and nights cool to about 11.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 126 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 03 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Yokohama (17 km away). In April its highs average 16.2°C, about as warm as Yokosuka, with 115 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Yokosuka ranks joint 232nd of 303 for the warmest April highs and joint 174th of 303 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 303 cities is 16.7°C; Yokosuka is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 19.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 126 mm to 138 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Yokosuka climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Yokosuka, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 9.2°C4.3°C4.3°C817.410.110 h
February 9.6°C4.3°C4.3°C848.610.911 h
March 12.3°C6.9°C6.9°C14413.011.912 h
April, selected 16.1°C11.3°C11.3°C12611.613.113 h
May 19.8°C15.7°C15.7°C13810.914.014 h
June 22.6°C19.2°C19.2°C18212.914.514 h
July 25.8°C22.8°C22.8°C14711.514.314 h
August 27.4°C24.3°C24.3°C1079.813.513 h
September 25.1°C21.7°C21.7°C18513.212.412 h
October 20.6°C16.8°C16.8°C22212.711.311 h
November 16.2°C11.8°C11.8°C11510.710.310 h
December 11.7°C7.0°C7.0°C738.59.810 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

April in nearby cities

Distance from Yokosuka

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Yokosuka) is explained once on the Yokosuka year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.