Rikuzen-Takata, Japan Climate
The warmest month is August, with an average high of 27°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of -6°C. A normal year brings 1401 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Sep 25
- Normal high
- 21°C
- Normal low
- 13°C
- Reanalysis high
- 26°Cin 2016
- Reanalysis low
- 8°Cin 2002
- Chance of a wet day
- 48%
- Daylight
- 12 h 03 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1°C | -6°C | 10°C (1997) | -14°C (2013) | 74 mm | 15.5 |
| February | 2°C | -6°C | 15°C (1993) | -15°C (2018) | 59 mm | 14.1 |
| March | 6°C | -3°C | 18°C (2018) | -13°C (2003) | 87 mm | 12.4 |
| April | 13°C | 2°C | 25°C (1998) | -5°C (1998) | 102 mm | 12.0 |
| May | 19°C | 8°C | 30°C (2019) | -1°C (1992) | 115 mm | 12.4 |
| June | 22°C | 13°C | 31°C (2018) | 5°C (2010) | 132 mm | 12.0 |
| July | 26°C | 18°C | 35°C (1994) | 11°C (1993) | 180 mm | 15.5 |
| August | 27°C | 19°C | 38°C (1994) | 11°C (1991) | 164 mm | 15.5 |
| September | 23°C | 15°C | 33°C (2012) | 3°C (2001) | 162 mm | 15.0 |
| October | 17°C | 8°C | 27°C (2019) | -1°C (2004) | 140 mm | 12.4 |
| November | 11°C | 2°C | 21°C (2014) | -5°C (1998) | 96 mm | 15.0 |
| December | 4°C | -3°C | 17°C (2004) | -12°C (2014) | 90 mm | 18.6 |
| Year | 14°C | 5°C | 1401 mm | 170 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
1401 mm in a normal year, most in July.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Rikuzen-Takata.
The muggiest month is August, when 76 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -4°C | 91% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | -4°C | 89% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | -1°C | 84% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 4°C | 81% | 99% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 10°C | 81% | 82% | 16% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 15°C | 84% | 24% | 40% | 29% | 7% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 19°C | 86% | 0% | 9% | 30% | 37% | 24% | 0% |
| August | 20°C | 86% | 0% | 6% | 18% | 36% | 39% | 1% |
| September | 16°C | 86% | 17% | 24% | 29% | 21% | 9% | 0% |
| October | 10°C | 86% | 77% | 17% | 5% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 4°C | 88% | 99% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | -2°C | 90% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is January, with the sky 67 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is July, at 80 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is February, averaging 16.6 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 17, with 14 h 55 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 19, with 9 h 25 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Rikuzen-Takata in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.