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Ōtake climate by month
What the weather is like
Ōtake 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 30° and nights 24°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 8° and lows of 3°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 22°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 1,705 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (256 mm, 16 wet days) and December the driest (46 mm, 8 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 30% in October to 56% in June.
The sea reaches about 26° 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, Ōtake is 0.4° warmer on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · August
- Coldest nights
- 3° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- December
- Clearest skies
- October · 30% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 26° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 25 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 53 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 | 8° | 9° | 13° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 29° | 30° | 27° | 21° | 16° | 11° |
| Average low | 3° | 3° | 5° | 10° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 24° | 21° | 15° | 10° | 5° |
| Precipitation | 57 mm | 80 mm | 145 mm | 167 mm | 187 mm | 278 mm | 256 mm | 130 mm | 182 mm | 99 mm | 78 mm | 46 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 8.8 | 10.5 | 11.7 | 10.2 | 11.3 | 12.7 | 15.5 | 12.3 | 13.5 | 9.2 | 8.3 | 8 |
| Cloud cover | 36% | 37% | 41% | 43% | 46% | 56% | 48% | 36% | 39% | 30% | 31% | 30% |
| Sea temperature | 15° | 13° | 13° | 15° | 17° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 25° | 23° | 20° | 17° |
| Daylight | 10h 07 | 10h 57 | 11h 55 | 13h 01 | 13h 55 | 14h 25 | 14h 14 | 13h 28 | 12h 26 | 11h 23 | 10h 24 | 9h 53 |
| Month score | 35 | 30 | 39 | 69 | 67 | 59 | 45 | 48 | 58 | 78 | 69 | 44 |