Climate averages 1991–2020
Yurihonjō weather
in January.
A cold month with very heavy precipitation: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Yurihonjō: daytime highs average 1.9°C and nights cool to about -2.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 214 mm of precipitation on roughly 27 days, which makes January a month with very heavy precipitation (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 44 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Akita (37 km away). In January its highs average 1.6°C, about as warm as Yurihonjō, with 164 mm of precipitation.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Yurihonjō ranks 277th of 303 for the warmest January highs and 296th of 303 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 303 cities is 7.0°C; Yurihonjō is 5.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 2.6°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 214 mm to 148 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Yurihonjō climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 1.9°C-2.5°C | -2.5°C | 214 | 26.6 | 9.710 h |
| February | 2.6°C-2.4°C | -2.4°C | 148 | 22.1 | 10.711 h |
| March | 6.1°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 134 | 19.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.7°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 111 | 14.4 | 13.213 h |
| May | 18.2°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 123 | 13.3 | 14.314 h |
| June | 22.3°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 130 | 12.2 | 14.915 h |
| July | 25.6°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 202 | 15.4 | 14.715 h |
| August | 27.2°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 187 | 15.0 | 13.714 h |
| September | 23.6°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 185 | 15.5 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.6°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 185 | 16.3 | 11.211 h |
| November | 11.2°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 204 | 21.1 | 10.110 h |
| December | 4.9°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 250 | 25.7 | 9.59 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Akita in JanuaryJapan · 37 kmHigh 1.6°C · Low -2.6°C · 164 mm precipitation
- Daisen in JanuaryJapan · 38 kmHigh 0.8°C · Low -5.9°C · 111 mm precipitation
- Yokote in JanuaryJapan · 43 kmHigh 0.7°C · Low -6.3°C · 118 mm precipitation
- Sakata in JanuaryJapan · 55 kmHigh 2.4°C · Low -1.7°C · 189 mm rain
- Tsuruoka in JanuaryJapan · 77 kmHigh 2.8°C · Low -0.5°C · 285 mm rain
- Hanamaki in JanuaryJapan · 91 kmHigh 0.6°C · Low -7.3°C · 80 mm precipitation
- Kitakami in JanuaryJapan · 92 kmHigh 0.9°C · Low -6.9°C · 73 mm precipitation
- Ōshū in JanuaryJapan · 100 kmHigh 2.0°C · Low -5.5°C · 59 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 Yurihonjō) is explained once on the Yurihonjō year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.