Climate averages 1991–2020

Yonago weather
in January.

A cold, very wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 7.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 2.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 193 mm 23 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Yonago: daytime highs average 7.2°C and nights cool to about 2.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 193 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 03 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Matsue (26 km away). In January its highs average 7.7°C, 0.6°C warmer than Yonago, with 177 mm of rain.

Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Yonago ranks joint 207th of 303 for the warmest January highs and 290th of 303 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Yonago is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 7.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 193 mm to 142 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Yonago climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Yonago, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	7.2°C2.5°C	2.5°C	193	23.2	10.110 h
February	7.9°C2.4°C	2.4°C	142	18.1	10.911 h
March	11.3°C4.8°C	4.8°C	138	15.2	11.912 h
April	16.2°C9.1°C	9.1°C	110	11.2	13.113 h
May	20.5°C13.8°C	13.8°C	121	10.4	14.014 h
June	23.9°C18.2°C	18.2°C	142	11.7	14.515 h
July	27.5°C22.9°C	22.9°C	178	13.1	14.314 h
August	28.9°C24.0°C	24.0°C	116	11.3	13.513 h
September	25.0°C20.3°C	20.3°C	188	13.3	12.412 h
October	20.1°C14.9°C	14.9°C	117	11.3	11.311 h
November	15.2°C9.8°C	9.8°C	125	15.2	10.310 h
December	9.9°C5.0°C	5.0°C	198	21.1	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Yonago

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 Yonago) is explained once on the Yonago year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.