Climate and average weather in Yakami

In Yakami, the summers are muggy, hot, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are cool, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early September to mid November

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Yakami typically varies from 5°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 2°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 Yakami for warm-weather activities are from mid April to late June and early September to mid November.

Hottest
Aug
30°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jun
211 mm
Driest
Jan
63 mm
Rain / yr
1576 mm
128 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
6 m
34.1°N
Clearest
Oct
51% cloud

Yakami 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 early September to mid November.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.3 months, from June 20 to September 27, with daily high temperatures above 25°C. The hottest month of the year in Yakami is August, with an average high of 30°C and low of 25°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from December 5 to March 17, with daily high temperatures below 13°C. The coldest month of the year in Yakami is January, with an average low of 5°C and high of 9°C.

Days typically run about 5°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan95
Feb105
Mar137
Apr1711
May2116
Jun2420
Jul2824
Aug3025
Sep2722
Oct2217
Nov1712
Dec127

How hot and cold Yakami 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, Yakami feels like about 35°C (around August 6). About 42 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan9915
Feb101015
Mar131347
Apr17171111
May21211616
Jun24242020
Jul31282424
Aug34302525
Sep27272222
Oct22221717
Nov17171112
Dec121247

Average hourly temperature in Yakami

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Yakami 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 / 639.50.6102.0
Feb10° / 699.7110.72.2
Mar13° / 10511.3011.73.6
Apr17° / 11°11710.1012.85.6
May21° / 16°14310.4013.86.4
Jun24° / 20°21113.6014.25.9
Jul28° / 24°20313.50145.3
Aug30° / 25°12710.5013.35.1
Sep27° / 22°20912.5012.26.1
Oct22° / 17°17810.1011.16.7
Nov17° / 12°837.8010.25.6
Dec12° / 6990.19.83.2

Chance of rain

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

Yakami gets about 1576 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 1.7 months, from around Jun 4 to Jul 24, peaking in June at about 55% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Nov 14.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 211 mm over about 14 wet days; January is the driest, with 63 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 29 · 55%Nov 14 · 26%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3210
Feb3510
Mar3611
Apr3410
May3310
Jun4614
Jul4314
Aug3511
Sep4113
Oct3310
Nov278
Dec289

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Yakami collects about 1576 mm of rain across 128 wet days — roughly 131 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 211 mm, while January is the driest at just 63 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec63691051171432112031272091788369
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan63101
Feb69101
Mar105110
Apr117100
May143100
Jun211140
Jul203140
Aug127110
Sep209130
Oct178100
Nov8380
Dec6990

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Yakami, 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 July 29 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around February 17. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 60% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 12 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around July 28. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 74% 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 30 · 62%Jun 25 · 21%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5347
Feb4951
Mar4951
Apr4852
May4357
Jun2674
Jul3565
Aug5149
Sep4951
Oct5743
Nov5941
Dec6040

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 14, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 9 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.07:135:10
Feb10.76:555:39
Mar11.76:206:04
Apr12.85:376:28
May13.85:056:51
Jun14.24:547:10
Jul14.05:057:10
Aug13.35:286:45
Sep12.25:506:03
Oct11.16:135:21
Nov10.26:424:53
Dec9.87:064:50

Sunny days

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

Yakami averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.4 months, from around Jul 27 to Jan 5. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 5 sunny days — about 62% fewer than the October peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightOct 2714 daysJun 254 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar10Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun5Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug11Mixed
Sep10Mixed
Oct13Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec11Mixed

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 Yakami, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around May 25 to October 13. 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 14 to May 24, and March 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 6 · 100%Jul 12 · 0%miserablecomfortablehumiddrymuggyoppressivecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb10000000
Mar9820000
Apr81153000
May383621500
Jun4133133181
Jul003165921
Aug002115333
Sep392128326
Oct3926221030
Nov83124100
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Yakami is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.2 months, from around Nov 11 to Apr 16. The windiest month is January, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 17 to Nov 10, with June the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 5 · 18 km/hJun 21 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan17light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug11calm
Sep12light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec17light breeze

Hazard calendar for Yakami

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Yakami

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early November, Yakami is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Yakami for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid April to late June and again from early September to mid November, with a peak score in the second week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 14 · 6.8

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
Jan2.0poor
Feb2.2poor
Mar3.6fair
Apr5.5good
May6.4good
Jun5.9good
Jul5.3fair
Aug5.2fair
Sep6.1good
Oct6.7good
Nov5.6good
Dec3.2poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Yakami for hot-weather activities is from early July to early October, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 6 · 6.9

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 Yakami, 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 30°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 9°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Yakami sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Yakami

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

The sea offshore is warmest in August at about 27°C and coldest in February near 14°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 5 to Nov 19 — about 5.5 months when the water holds above 20°C.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan15Cool
Feb14Bracing
Mar14Bracing
Apr16Cool
May18Cool
Jun21Refreshing
Jul25Warm
Aug27Warm
Sep26Warm
Oct24Refreshing
Nov20Refreshing
Dec17Cool

UV index (midday) in Yakami 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 Yakami peaks around July 11 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 — in 11 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highModerateJul 11UV 10Dec 21UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar6High
Apr7Very high
May9Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep10Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Yakami

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 July 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)
Jan10
Feb40
Mar5.50
Apr73.5
May85
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug7.55
Sep7.55
Oct62
Nov3.50
Dec00

Air quality in Yakami 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 Yakami is worst in April — around 23 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (October, 12 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateApr 1422 µg/m³Oct 1613 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan15Moderate
Feb17Moderate
Mar21Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May20Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct12Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Yakami is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan990
Feb980
Mar990
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

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. Yakami banks about 2,653 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
Mar13
Apr130
May263
Jun364
Jul500
Aug538
Sep430
Oct288
Nov121
Dec6

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.

Yakami receives about 4.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.5 and 5.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 9 to Sep 16. The brightest month is May, averaging about 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.5 kWh/m² — roughly 54% less than the May peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 205.6 kWhDec 132.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.8Moderate
Feb3.5Moderate
Mar4.4Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun4.9Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep4.2Bright
Oct3.5Moderate
Nov2.8Moderate
Dec2.5Moderate

Where is Yakami?

Yakami sits at 34.1°N, 134.5°E, 6 m above sea level, in Japan. The nearest listed city is Takabō, 3.0 km away.

Topography around Yakami

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Yakami has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 184 m around an average of 13 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 695 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,910 m.

The land around Yakami is covered by artificial surfaces (47%) and cropland (27%) within 3 km, trees (37%) and water (30%) within 16 km, and water (48%) and trees (41%) within 80 km.

3 km
184 m
16 km
695 m
80 km
1,910 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Takabō 3.0 km · Ishii 10 km · Tokushima 10 km · Narutochō-mitsuishi 12 km · Kamojimachō-jōgejima 16 km · Komatsushimachō 17 km · Higashikagawa 17 km · Awa 21 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 Yakami (34.1385°, 134.5018°, elevation 6 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).