Climate averages 1991–2020

Yokosuka 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.

Average high 11.7°C Daytime mean, December
Average low 7.0°C Night-time mean, December
Rainfall 73 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Yokosuka · average highYear overview

December is a cool month in Yokosuka: daytime highs average 11.7°C and nights cool to about 7.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 50 min on an average December day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Yokohama (17 km away). In December its highs average 11.0°C, 0.6°C cooler than Yokosuka, with 63 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Yokosuka ranks joint 23rd of 303 for the warmest December highs and joint 197th of 303 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 303 cities is 9.5°C; Yokosuka is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.

From December to January, average highs fall by 2.5°C to 9.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 73 mm to 81 mm.

The annual picture

December 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 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, selected 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

December 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.