Echizen climate by month
What the weather is like
Echizen has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 29° and nights 24°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 6° and lows of 1°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 23°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 2,356 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (273 mm, 24 wet days) and May the driest (164 mm, 13 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 36% in August to 56% in June.
The sea reaches about 27° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Tokyo, the capital, Echizen is 0.6° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · August
- Coldest nights
- 1° · January
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- May
- Clearest skies
- August · 36% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 35 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 45 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 6° | 6° | 10° | 15° | 20° | 23° | 27° | 29° | 25° | 20° | 15° | 9° |
| Average low | 1° | 1° | 4° | 9° | 13° | 18° | 22° | 24° | 20° | 14° | 9° | 4° |
| Precipitation | 287 mm | 177 mm | 164 mm | 136 mm | 164 mm | 196 mm | 248 mm | 147 mm | 211 mm | 155 mm | 198 mm | 273 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 23 | 17.7 | 14.8 | 13.2 | 13 | 14.7 | 19.7 | 17.8 | 18.2 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 24.2 |
| Cloud cover | 44% | 43% | 44% | 43% | 47% | 56% | 49% | 36% | 42% | 36% | 36% | 40% |
| Sea temperature | 13° | 12° | 11° | 13° | 16° | 20° | 24° | 27° | 25° | 22° | 19° | 16° |
| Daylight | 9h 59 | 10h 53 | 11h 55 | 13h 05 | 14h 03 | 14h 35 | 14h 22 | 13h 33 | 12h 27 | 11h 20 | 10h 18 | 9h 45 |
| Month score | 19 | 20 | 19 | 50 | 62 | 56 | 51 | 49 | 62 | 65 | 47 | 21 |