Gojō climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Gojō?

Gojō has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 12.2 °C and it receives 2,027 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Gojō?

The hottest day measured in Gojō between 1940 and 2025 was 19 August 1995, reaching 34.6 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Gojō?

The coldest day measured in Gojō between 1940 and 2025 was 17 February 1977, at -18.0 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Gojō?

Yes. Gojō gets on average 49.3 cm of snow per year and has around 96 frost days.

Q: Has the climate of Gojō warmed?

Yes: Gojō warmed by +2.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Gojō?

The wettest day measured in Gojō between 1940 and 2025 was 22 October 2017, with 180 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Gojō?

The windiest day measured in Gojō between 1940 and 2025 was 26 September 1959, with winds reaching 59.8 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Gojō?

The warmest month in Gojō is August (24.1 °C on average); the coldest is January (0.4 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Gojō?

Gojō receives on average 2,027 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 169 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Gojō?

Gojō gets on average 8.8 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,212 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Gojō (Japan) has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 12.2 °C and it receives 2,027 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is August (24.1 °C on average) and the coldest is January (0.4 °C). Rainfall peaks in June.

Gojō averages 96 frost days, 15 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 169 rainy days per year.

Gojō has warmed by +2.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.34 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The number of frost days there went from about 118 to 74 per year over the period.

The hottest day of the period reached 34.6 °C (on 19 August 1995) and the coldest -18.0 °C (on 17 February 1977).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

GojōNara

coords: 34.35°, 135.70°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CfaHumid subtropicalWarmest monthAugustColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthJuneDriest monthDecember

Mean daily temperature

12.2°C

Average daily high

16.7°C

Average daily low

8.0°C

Annual rainfall

2,027mm

Sunshine / day

8.8h

Mean relative humidity

78%

Average peak wind

13.1km/h

Seasonal range

23.7°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

96 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

15 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

169 d/yr

Annual snowfall

49.3 cm

Average feels-like high

15.9 °C

Average feels-like low

6.8 °C

Average peak gust

41.1 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

47 d/yr

Solar radiation

14.6 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.9 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.68 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

34.6 °C

19 August 1995

Coldest day

-18.0 °C

17 February 1977

Wettest day

180 mm

22 October 2017

Windiest day

59.8 km/h

26 September 1959

Strongest gust

205.9 km/h

26 September 1959

Hottest feels-like

39.9 °C

8 August 1994

Coldest feels-like

-22.0 °C

17 February 1977

Snowiest day

34.5 cm

15 February 1968

Sunniest day

14.0 h

3 June 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	33.7 °C29 July 2025	-11.0 °C20 March 2025	13.3 °C	1,665 mm	53	92
2024	34.5 °C3 August 2024	-8.2 °C30 December 2024	14.5 °C	2,319 mm	60	72
2023	33.3 °C27 July 2023	-9.0 °C25 January 2023	14.1 °C	1,973 mm	41	66
2022	32.9 °C1 July 2022	-6.8 °C19 December 2022	13.7 °C	1,786 mm	27	83
2021	33.5 °C5 August 2021	-7.2 °C9 January 2021	13.9 °C	2,275 mm	20	59
2020	34.4 °C17 August 2020	-5.8 °C17 December 2020	13.8 °C	2,314 mm	29	62
2019	33.1 °C4 August 2019	-4.8 °C10 January 2019	13.8 °C	2,198 mm	24	67
2018	33.7 °C19 July 2018	-9.0 °C12 January 2018	13.8 °C	2,353 mm	31	75
2017	32.3 °C24 August 2017	-10.0 °C26 January 2017	12.9 °C	2,066 mm	18	87
2016	32.6 °C6 August 2016	-8.7 °C26 January 2016	14.1 °C	2,297 mm	32	69
2015	33.0 °C1 August 2015	-6.4 °C14 February 2015	13.7 °C	2,523 mm	21	61
2014	34.0 °C25 July 2014	-7.7 °C17 February 2014	12.9 °C	1,938 mm	9	89
2013	33.7 °C12 August 2013	-10.4 °C16 January 2013	13.1 °C	2,018 mm	28	85
2012	31.8 °C26 July 2012	-7.8 °C3 February 2012	12.6 °C	2,068 mm	16	87
2011	31.8 °C16 July 2011	-10.6 °C16 February 2011	13.0 °C	2,652 mm	22	93
2010	32.8 °C22 July 2010	-6.8 °C15 January 2010	13.5 °C	2,033 mm	38	71
2009	31.9 °C8 August 2009	-4.0 °C19 December 2009	13.2 °C	2,200 mm	5	72
2008	32.7 °C3 August 2008	-6.9 °C18 February 2008	13.1 °C	1,892 mm	27	75
2007	32.8 °C16 August 2007	-4.1 °C3 February 2007	13.4 °C	1,581 mm	18	69
2006	32.8 °C6 August 2006	-6.4 °C4 February 2006	13.0 °C	2,209 mm	20	72
2005	32.0 °C21 July 2005	-6.5 °C2 February 2005	12.7 °C	1,667 mm	15	97
2004	31.5 °C14 July 2004	-10.0 °C28 January 2004	13.6 °C	2,163 mm	18	80
2003	31.6 °C3 September 2003	-9.9 °C7 January 2003	12.6 °C	2,447 mm	16	90
2002	32.4 °C6 August 2002	-7.8 °C13 February 2002	12.9 °C	1,784 mm	23	78
2001	34.0 °C1 August 2001	-12.4 °C18 January 2001	12.7 °C	1,918 mm	21	97
2000	32.7 °C23 July 2000	-10.4 °C1 March 2000	12.9 °C	1,822 mm	24	91
1999	31.4 °C25 July 1999	-12.8 °C14 February 1999	12.8 °C	1,905 mm	7	92
1998	32.5 °C16 August 1998	-11.8 °C30 January 1998	13.8 °C	2,220 mm	19	79
1997	31.8 °C2 September 1997	-11.0 °C14 February 1997	12.4 °C	2,045 mm	16	91
1996	32.5 °C17 July 1996	-12.8 °C27 January 1996	11.8 °C	1,768 mm	22	112
1995	34.6 °C19 August 1995	-9.8 °C18 January 1995	12.1 °C	1,656 mm	37	108
1994	34.0 °C16 July 1994	-10.7 °C31 January 1994	13.4 °C	1,339 mm	30	96
1993	30.6 °C25 August 1993	-11.2 °C3 February 1993	12.2 °C	2,638 mm	2	93
1992	31.8 °C30 July 1992	-6.9 °C2 February 1992	12.6 °C	1,973 mm	15	78
1991	32.5 °C24 July 1991	-14.0 °C26 February 1991	13.1 °C	2,464 mm	16	77
1990	33.6 °C8 August 1990	-11.7 °C28 January 1990	13.4 °C	2,101 mm	30	83
1989	30.7 °C8 August 1989	-7.6 °C5 February 1989	12.8 °C	1,987 mm	4	79
1988	30.9 °C9 July 1988	-8.2 °C22 February 1988	11.9 °C	1,980 mm	6	100
1987	32.0 °C30 August 1987	-10.7 °C14 January 1987	12.7 °C	1,695 mm	11	88
1986	32.2 °C30 July 1986	-11.4 °C13 January 1986	11.6 °C	1,592 mm	10	113
1985	32.6 °C30 July 1985	-14.2 °C31 January 1985	12.3 °C	1,961 mm	17	93
1984	31.7 °C5 July 1984	-12.6 °C30 January 1984	11.3 °C	1,562 mm	18	116
1983	31.7 °C4 August 1983	-10.1 °C23 February 1983	12.4 °C	1,957 mm	17	95
1982	29.9 °C7 August 1982	-12.3 °C31 January 1982	12.0 °C	2,426 mm	0	95
1981	31.0 °C2 August 1981	-12.0 °C18 January 1981	11.3 °C	1,709 mm	8	107
1980	31.0 °C21 July 1980	-13.3 °C17 February 1980	11.6 °C	2,583 mm	3	112
1979	31.3 °C1 August 1979	-9.6 °C17 January 1979	12.4 °C	2,286 mm	9	99
1978	32.8 °C6 July 1978	-11.6 °C2 February 1978	12.4 °C	1,550 mm	24	97
1977	31.7 °C4 August 1977	-18.0 °C17 February 1977	12.4 °C	2,098 mm	12	92
1976	30.9 °C22 August 1976	-11.1 °C30 December 1976	11.6 °C	2,461 mm	5	105
1975	31.5 °C3 August 1975	-12.8 °C17 February 1975	12.0 °C	2,625 mm	11	110
1974	30.3 °C9 August 1974	-12.4 °C12 February 1974	11.7 °C	2,294 mm	3	106
1973	32.6 °C10 August 1973	-12.2 °C25 December 1973	12.0 °C	2,006 mm	14	106
1972	32.2 °C5 August 1972	-11.6 °C2 March 1972	12.2 °C	2,822 mm	10	100
1971	31.0 °C31 July 1971	-12.5 °C2 February 1971	11.8 °C	2,418 mm	8	101
1970	32.5 °C22 July 1970	-12.1 °C7 February 1970	11.5 °C	2,293 mm	11	114
1969	32.3 °C13 August 1969	-10.6 °C10 January 1969	11.7 °C	2,111 mm	13	108
1968	31.7 °C20 July 1968	-12.3 °C13 February 1968	11.5 °C	2,263 mm	8	105
1967	31.8 °C25 August 1967	-15.7 °C17 January 1967	11.8 °C	1,985 mm	13	111
1966	31.5 °C9 August 1966	-11.3 °C25 January 1966	11.1 °C	2,273 mm	3	115
1965	29.5 °C5 August 1965	-11.5 °C31 January 1965	10.3 °C	2,184 mm	0	128
1964	32.0 °C25 July 1964	-11.5 °C6 February 1964	12.7 °C	2,091 mm	21	98
1963	32.5 °C18 July 1963	-13.5 °C23 January 1963	11.7 °C	2,019 mm	9	112
1962	32.3 °C22 July 1962	-11.8 °C28 January 1962	12.0 °C	1,931 mm	13	105
1961	32.9 °C13 August 1961	-12.0 °C4 February 1961	12.9 °C	2,172 mm	32	98
1960	32.6 °C2 August 1960	-12.8 °C26 January 1960	12.6 °C	1,847 mm	20	97
1959	33.4 °C2 August 1959	-13.2 °C20 January 1959	13.1 °C	2,394 mm	17	74
1958	31.9 °C31 July 1958	-9.7 °C31 March 1958	12.5 °C	2,154 mm	10	86
1957	32.3 °C1 August 1957	-10.6 °C20 February 1957	11.8 °C	2,233 mm	8	91
1956	33.0 °C3 August 1956	-11.8 °C11 March 1956	11.8 °C	2,122 mm	25	109
1955	32.1 °C2 August 1955	-12.8 °C28 January 1955	12.4 °C	2,090 mm	18	94
1954	32.3 °C13 August 1954	-12.2 °C31 January 1954	12.2 °C	2,196 mm	15	89
1953	32.5 °C27 July 1953	-15.5 °C23 February 1953	12.0 °C	2,394 mm	15	97
1952	30.4 °C2 August 1952	-12.6 °C27 January 1952	10.8 °C	2,121 mm	2	114
1951	32.0 °C28 July 1951	-17.3 °C16 February 1951	10.9 °C	1,853 mm	8	107
1950	29.9 °C7 July 1950	-13.1 °C22 February 1950	11.0 °C	1,834 mm	0	116
1949	29.8 °C6 August 1949	-10.9 °C11 February 1949	10.7 °C	1,831 mm	0	116
1948	28.4 °C19 August 1948	-9.8 °C4 January 1948	11.4 °C	1,634 mm	0	103
1947	31.6 °C13 August 1947	-15.1 °C5 February 1947	9.8 °C	1,283 mm	6	129
1946	32.4 °C16 July 1946	-12.0 °C12 January 1946	11.2 °C	1,427 mm	11	116
1945	29.3 °C6 August 1945	-15.0 °C19 January 1945	10.1 °C	2,482 mm	0	118
1944	29.5 °C1 September 1944	-12.2 °C9 January 1944	11.0 °C	1,560 mm	0	124
1943	29.2 °C8 August 1943	-13.6 °C2 February 1943	10.5 °C	1,108 mm	0	128
1942	32.2 °C4 August 1942	-16.1 °C13 February 1942	10.7 °C	1,067 mm	14	121
1941	29.5 °C17 August 1941	-13.9 °C2 February 1941	10.8 °C	1,807 mm	0	117
1940	29.6 °C24 July 1940	-15.7 °C10 February 1940	10.1 °C	1,282 mm	0	123

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

18.1 °C

+1.4 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

53 d/yr

+38

Frost days (< 0 °C)

92 d/yr

-4

Annual rainfall

1665 mm

-362 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	5.3 °C	+0.7 °C	43 mm	-38 mm
Feb	3.7 °C	-1.8 °C	57 mm	-38 mm
Mar	11.7 °C	+1.8 °C	110 mm	-28 mm
Apr	17.5 °C	+1.5 °C	98 mm	-60 mm
May	20.7 °C	+0.4 °C	316 mm	+124 mm
Jun	25.7 °C	+2.3 °C	236 mm	-76 mm
Jul	30.1 °C	+2.9 °C	98 mm	-176 mm
Aug	30.3 °C	+1.9 °C	170 mm	-22 mm
Sep	27.7 °C	+2.9 °C	141 mm	-86 mm
Oct	20.6 °C	+1.6 °C	272 mm	+96 mm
Nov	13.8 °C	+0.3 °C	46 mm	-59 mm
Dec	9.3 °C	+1.7 °C	78 mm	+1 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

33.7 °C

29 Jul 2025

Coldest day

-11.0 °C

20 Mar 2025

Wettest day

82.2 mm

11 Aug 2025

Windiest day

27.9 km/h

17 Mar 2025

Strongest gust

85.7 km/h

5 Feb 2025

Hottest feels-like

38.8 °C

7 Jul 2025

Coldest feels-like

-14.8 °C

20 Mar 2025

Snowiest day

4.1 cm

1 Feb 2025

Sunniest day

14.0 h

5 Jun 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Gojō?

Gojō has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 12.2 °C and it receives 2,027 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Gojō?

The hottest day measured in Gojō between 1940 and 2025 was 19 August 1995, reaching 34.6 °C.

What is the coldest day in Gojō?

The coldest day measured in Gojō between 1940 and 2025 was 17 February 1977, at -18.0 °C.

Does it snow in Gojō?

Yes. Gojō gets on average 49.3 cm of snow per year and has around 96 frost days.

Has the climate of Gojō warmed?

Yes: Gojō warmed by +2.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Gojō?

The wettest day measured in Gojō between 1940 and 2025 was 22 October 2017, with 180 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Gojō?

The windiest day measured in Gojō between 1940 and 2025 was 26 September 1959, with winds reaching 59.8 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Gojō?

The warmest month in Gojō is August (24.1 °C on average); the coldest is January (0.4 °C).

How much does it rain in Gojō?

Gojō receives on average 2,027 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 169 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Gojō?

Gojō gets on average 8.8 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,212 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Gojō?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Gojō between 1940 and 2025 was 15 February 1968, with 34.5 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Gojō?

Yes: Gojō has on average 47 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Gojō?

In Gojō, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 39.9 °C on 8 August 1994, and the lowest was -22.0 °C on 17 February 1977.

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