Climate and average weather in Uki

In Uki, the summers are muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid September to mid November

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Uki typically varies from 2°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -3°C or above 32°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Uki for warm-weather activities are from late April to early June and mid September to mid November.

Hottest
Aug
29°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jun
464 mm
Driest
Jan
82 mm
Rain / yr
2166 mm
157 wet days
Daylight
9.9–14.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
0 m
32.6°N
Clearest
Oct
49% cloud

Uki weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid September to mid November.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Uki, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from June 13 to October 1, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Uki is August, with an average high of 29°C and low of 23°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from December 5 to March 7, with daily high temperatures below 12°C. The coldest month of the year in Uki is January, with an average low of 2°C and high of 8°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan82
Feb93
Mar136
Apr1810
May2215
Jun2419
Jul2823
Aug2923
Sep2620
Oct2214
Nov169
Dec104

How hot and cold Uki really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Uki feels like about 33°C (around August 3). About 25 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -1°C (around January 26), with roughly 48 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan88-12
Feb9903
Mar131346
Apr18181010
May22221515
Jun24241919
Jul30282323
Aug32292323
Sep27262020
Oct22221414
Nov161689
Dec101024

Average hourly temperature in Uki

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Uki weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / 8210.53.210.11.3
Feb / 10210.52.210.81.9
Mar13° / 15113.60.611.83.4
Apr18° / 10°17012.3012.85.3
May22° / 15°19312.5013.76.1
Jun24° / 19°46419.1014.15.1
Jul28° / 23°35819.8013.94.5
Aug29° / 23°17116.9013.24.5
Sep26° / 20°18314.3012.25.9
Oct22° / 14°1089011.26.9
Nov16° / 988.8010.35.2
Dec10° / 86101.49.92.5

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Uki gets about 2166 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.7 months, from around May 31 to Sep 20, peaking in June at about 76% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 22.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 464 mm over about 19 wet days; January is the driest, with 82 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 28 · 76%Oct 22 · 27%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3411
Feb3811
Mar4314
Apr4212
May4013
Jun6319
Jul6420
Aug5517
Sep4714
Oct309
Nov309
Dec3210

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Uki collects about 2166 mm of rain across 157 wet days — roughly 181 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 464 mm, while January is the driest at just 82 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 47% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250300350400450500550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec821021511701934643581711831089886
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan82113
Feb102112
Mar151141
Apr170120
May193130
Jun464190
Jul358200
Aug171170
Sep183140
Oct10890
Nov9890
Dec86101

Snow in Uki

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Uki averages about 7 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Dec 6 to Mar 15 — about 3.3 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 3 days of snow and an estimated 10 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 24 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 24
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan310
Feb28
Mar12
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov00
Dec13

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Uki, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around September 8 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around January 9. The clearest month is October, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 9 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around July 29. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 83% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecOct 22 · 62%Jun 24 · 12%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4258
Feb4654
Mar4555
Apr4159
May3466
Jun1783
Jul2971
Aug4258
Sep4654
Oct5941
Nov5644
Dec5248

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 6, brings about 14 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.17:245:29
Feb10.87:085:56
Mar11.86:346:20
Apr12.85:536:42
May13.75:237:04
Jun14.15:147:22
Jul13.95:247:22
Aug13.25:456:58
Sep12.26:066:18
Oct11.26:275:38
Nov10.36:545:11
Dec9.97:185:09

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Uki averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.7 months, from around Sep 12 to Jan 2. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 3 sunny days — about 78% fewer than the October peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightOct 2114 daysJun 232 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb8Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May7Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep9Mixed
Oct13Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec10Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Uki, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around May 28 to October 10. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 11 to May 27, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 2 · 100%Jul 10 · 0%oppressivemuggydryhumidcomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb9910000
Mar9730000
Apr80145100
May443219600
Jun5173031170
Jul00324711
Aug00321742
Sep7122033280
Oct502317920
Nov86104000
Dec9910000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Uki is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJul 3 · 9 km/hJun 3 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Uki

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Uki sits in the Pacific typhoon belt; the season peaks July–October.

Uki's rainy season runs June–July, when most of the year's rain falls.

Pacific typhoon
Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Uki

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Uki throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late September, Uki is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Uki for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to early June and again from mid September to mid November, with a peak score in the third week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 15 · 7.1

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan1.3poor
Feb1.9poor
Mar3.4poor
Apr5.3fair
May6.1good
Jun5.1fair
Jul4.5fair
Aug4.6fair
Sep5.9good
Oct6.9good
Nov5.2fair
Dec2.5poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Uki for hot-weather activities run from late May to mid June and again from mid July to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 11 · 5.9

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Uki, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 29°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 8°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Uki sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 17 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Uki

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 27 km away) is warmest in August at about 27°C and coldest in February near 14°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from May 26 to Nov 19 — about 5.9 months when the water holds above 20°C.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan15Cool
Feb14Bracing
Mar15Bracing
Apr17Cool
May19Cool
Jun22Refreshing
Jul25Warm
Aug27Warm
Sep26Warm
Oct23Refreshing
Nov20Refreshing
Dec18Cool

UV index (midday) in Uki by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Uki peaks around June 22 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highModerateJun 22UV 10Dec 21UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar6High
Apr8Very high
May8Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep10Very high
Oct7High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Uki

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan2.50
Feb4.50
Mar61.5
Apr74
May84.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.55
Sep7.55
Oct62.5
Nov40
Dec10

Air quality in Uki by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Uki is worst in March — around 24 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (July, 13 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 2424 µg/m³Jul 2114 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan17Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar24Moderate
Apr24Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov16Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Uki is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 4 to December 10 (282 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 490%Dec 1090%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7231
Feb7727
Mar950
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov980
Dec8618

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Uki banks about 2,424 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar9
Apr123
May259
Jun349
Jul473
Aug499
Sep396
Oct248
Nov69
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Uki receives about 3.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.4 and 5.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.5 months, from around Mar 6 to Jun 20. The brightest month is May, averaging about 5.1 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.4 kWh/m² — roughly 53% less than the May peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightMay 195.1 kWhDec 142.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.6Moderate
Feb3.3Moderate
Mar4.1Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun4.1Bright
Jul4.6Bright
Aug4.8Bright
Sep4.0Bright
Oct3.7Moderate
Nov2.8Moderate
Dec2.4Moderate

Where is Uki?

Uki sits at 32.6°N, 130.7°E, 0 m above sea level, in Japan. The nearest listed city is Matsubase, 3.0 km away.

Topography around Uki

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Uki.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Uki has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 98 m around an average of 3 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 861 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,757 m.

The land around Uki is covered by cropland (54%) within 3 km, trees (42%), cropland (22%) and water (20%) within 16 km, and trees (65%) and water (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
98 m
16 km
861 m
80 km
1,757 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Matsubase 3.0 km · Uto 7.0 km · Honmachi 14 km · Mifune 18 km · Kotō 19 km · Shimada 19 km · Kumamoto 21 km · Ōyanomachi-noboritate 22 km

Japan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type A / B
100 V · 50 / 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 65% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$35,951
2025
Happiness
6.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
99%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.2
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
3.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 446
Religion
Shintoism 49%Buddhism 46%other 4%Christianity 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Uki (32.6222°, 130.6618°, elevation 0 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).