Kushimoto climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Kushimoto?

Kushimoto has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 17.3 °C and it receives 2,383 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Kushimoto between 1940 and 2025 was 18 August 2020, reaching 34.2 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Kushimoto?

The coldest day measured in Kushimoto between 1940 and 2025 was 26 February 1981, at -2.3 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Kushimoto?

Almost never: Kushimoto sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Kushimoto warmed?

Yes: Kushimoto warmed by +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Kushimoto?

The wettest day measured in Kushimoto between 1940 and 2025 was 31 August 1979, with 277 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Kushimoto?

The windiest day measured in Kushimoto between 1940 and 2025 was 26 September 1959, with winds reaching 117.1 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Kushimoto?

The warmest month in Kushimoto is August (26.8 °C on average); the coldest is January (8.0 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Kushimoto?

Kushimoto receives on average 2,383 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 159 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Kushimoto?

Kushimoto gets on average 8.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,249 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Kushimoto (Japan) has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 17.3 °C and it receives 2,383 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 (26.8 °C on average) and the coldest is January (8.0 °C). Rainfall peaks in June.

Kushimoto averages 0 frost days, 8 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 159 rainy days per year.

Kushimoto has warmed by +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.21 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 34.2 °C (on 18 August 2020) and the coldest -2.3 °C (on 26 February 1981).

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

KushimotoWakayama

coords: 33.47°, 135.78°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CfaHumid subtropicalWarmest monthAugustColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthJuneDriest monthJanuary

Mean daily temperature

17.3°C

Average daily high

19.4°C

Average daily low

15.3°C

Annual rainfall

2,383mm

Sunshine / day

8.9h

Mean relative humidity

73%

Average peak wind

23.4km/h

Seasonal range

18.8°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

8 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

159 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.8 cm

Average feels-like high

19.2 °C

Average feels-like low

13.9 °C

Average peak gust

42.6 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

119 d/yr

Solar radiation

15.3 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.8 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.61 · 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

34.2 °C

18 August 2020

Coldest day

-2.3 °C

26 February 1981

Wettest day

277 mm

31 August 1979

Windiest day

117.1 km/h

26 September 1959

Strongest gust

225.0 km/h

26 September 1959

Hottest feels-like

41.0 °C

17 August 2020

Coldest feels-like

-10.6 °C

26 February 1981

Snowiest day

4.6 cm

21 February 1953

Sunniest day

14.0 h

3 June 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	31.7 °C6 July 2025	0.7 °C8 February 2025	18.2 °C	2,062 mm	26	0
2024	33.7 °C16 August 2024	2.5 °C24 January 2024	18.8 °C	2,628 mm	48	0
2023	31.0 °C13 August 2023	0.1 °C25 January 2023	18.5 °C	2,223 mm	9	0
2022	31.6 °C4 August 2022	1.9 °C17 February 2022	18.2 °C	2,425 mm	16	0
2021	31.8 °C28 August 2021	1.1 °C9 January 2021	18.4 °C	2,246 mm	7	0
2020	34.2 °C18 August 2020	3.3 °C31 December 2020	18.5 °C	2,568 mm	23	0
2019	31.0 °C1 August 2019	3.5 °C26 January 2019	18.3 °C	2,524 mm	7	0
2018	33.1 °C24 July 2018	0.7 °C24 January 2018	18.0 °C	2,632 mm	21	0
2017	31.7 °C24 August 2017	1.4 °C15 January 2017	17.8 °C	2,462 mm	18	0
2016	33.2 °C9 August 2016	0.4 °C24 January 2016	18.7 °C	2,329 mm	16	0
2015	32.2 °C8 August 2015	2.2 °C9 February 2015	18.2 °C	3,061 mm	17	0
2014	31.0 °C24 July 2014	2.4 °C6 February 2014	17.5 °C	2,326 mm	4	0
2013	33.3 °C12 August 2013	2.0 °C27 January 2013	17.9 °C	1,963 mm	25	0
2012	31.2 °C8 August 2012	0.4 °C3 February 2012	17.3 °C	2,517 mm	4	0
2011	31.0 °C12 August 2011	0.4 °C16 January 2011	17.6 °C	2,965 mm	4	0
2010	31.5 °C18 August 2010	2.9 °C14 January 2010	18.2 °C	2,816 mm	14	0
2009	32.0 °C8 September 2009	3.0 °C17 February 2009	18.0 °C	2,587 mm	5	0
2008	32.3 °C4 August 2008	2.0 °C24 February 2008	17.9 °C	2,370 mm	12	0
2007	31.9 °C17 August 2007	3.7 °C7 March 2007	18.2 °C	2,119 mm	14	0
2006	31.2 °C29 July 2006	0.3 °C4 February 2006	18.0 °C	2,965 mm	13	0
2005	31.4 °C11 August 2005	1.2 °C1 February 2005	17.4 °C	1,893 mm	7	0
2004	31.8 °C20 July 2004	1.8 °C22 January 2004	18.5 °C	2,502 mm	7	0
2003	32.1 °C3 September 2003	0.6 °C29 January 2003	17.8 °C	2,851 mm	8	0
2002	31.9 °C19 August 2002	2.0 °C2 January 2002	17.9 °C	2,233 mm	7	0
2001	32.1 °C4 August 2001	0.9 °C15 January 2001	17.7 °C	2,121 mm	7	0
2000	31.5 °C22 July 2000	0.9 °C25 February 2000	17.7 °C	2,386 mm	10	0
1999	30.7 °C29 August 1999	-0.2 °C4 February 1999	18.0 °C	2,352 mm	5	1
1998	32.2 °C14 August 1998	1.0 °C25 January 1998	18.8 °C	3,079 mm	24	0
1997	30.6 °C30 August 1997	-0.8 °C22 January 1997	17.6 °C	2,352 mm	6	1
1996	31.2 °C5 August 1996	1.1 °C2 February 1996	17.0 °C	1,923 mm	5	0
1995	32.9 °C17 August 1995	1.2 °C31 January 1995	17.2 °C	1,709 mm	33	0
1994	32.8 °C5 August 1994	1.3 °C30 January 1994	18.2 °C	1,906 mm	19	0
1993	30.5 °C27 August 1993	3.0 °C2 February 1993	17.2 °C	2,950 mm	1	0
1992	31.0 °C28 July 1992	3.2 °C15 January 1992	17.5 °C	2,618 mm	7	0
1991	32.5 °C2 August 1991	0.8 °C25 February 1991	17.8 °C	2,980 mm	9	0
1990	32.0 °C4 August 1990	1.0 °C26 January 1990	17.9 °C	2,287 mm	9	0
1989	30.5 °C10 August 1989	1.5 °C29 January 1989	17.7 °C	2,570 mm	3	0
1988	30.3 °C23 August 1988	1.7 °C3 February 1988	17.0 °C	2,139 mm	2	0
1987	30.0 °C26 August 1987	1.2 °C26 January 1987	17.5 °C	1,936 mm	1	0
1986	30.9 °C3 September 1986	0.5 °C16 February 1986	16.8 °C	1,650 mm	3	0
1985	29.6 °C12 September 1985	0.7 °C31 January 1985	17.2 °C	2,129 mm	0	0
1984	30.6 °C28 August 1984	-0.4 °C4 February 1984	16.5 °C	1,727 mm	5	3
1983	31.3 °C27 July 1983	1.2 °C23 January 1983	17.2 °C	2,152 mm	15	0
1982	28.9 °C3 September 1982	0.0 °C29 January 1982	16.9 °C	2,612 mm	0	0
1981	30.8 °C18 July 1981	-2.3 °C26 February 1981	16.9 °C	1,919 mm	3	2
1980	30.0 °C21 July 1980	1.5 °C18 January 1980	17.0 °C	2,792 mm	1	0
1979	30.4 °C11 August 1979	2.7 °C2 February 1979	17.5 °C	2,899 mm	3	0
1978	31.2 °C4 July 1978	1.0 °C1 February 1978	17.4 °C	1,954 mm	4	0
1977	31.5 °C15 July 1977	-1.1 °C17 February 1977	17.6 °C	2,477 mm	9	3
1976	30.6 °C22 August 1976	1.1 °C24 January 1976	16.8 °C	2,599 mm	2	0
1975	30.5 °C18 July 1975	1.1 °C18 February 1975	17.3 °C	3,245 mm	1	0
1974	30.2 °C2 August 1974	0.3 °C12 February 1974	17.0 °C	2,835 mm	1	0
1973	30.4 °C20 August 1973	1.4 °C25 February 1973	17.2 °C	2,323 mm	3	0
1972	31.1 °C4 August 1972	3.1 °C2 March 1972	17.4 °C	3,401 mm	5	0
1971	30.9 °C16 July 1971	1.9 °C11 February 1971	17.1 °C	2,986 mm	11	0
1970	31.3 °C21 July 1970	1.2 °C5 February 1970	16.8 °C	2,897 mm	6	0
1969	32.5 °C13 August 1969	0.5 °C6 February 1969	17.0 °C	2,547 mm	7	0
1968	30.7 °C10 August 1968	1.0 °C12 February 1968	16.9 °C	2,809 mm	2	0
1967	32.2 °C17 August 1967	0.3 °C16 January 1967	17.3 °C	2,730 mm	15	0
1966	31.1 °C8 August 1966	0.3 °C20 January 1966	17.0 °C	2,838 mm	5	0
1965	30.0 °C13 August 1965	1.3 °C3 February 1965	16.4 °C	2,348 mm	1	0
1964	31.8 °C9 August 1964	1.7 °C5 February 1964	17.7 °C	2,211 mm	11	0
1963	30.6 °C23 August 1963	0.4 °C24 January 1963	17.1 °C	2,388 mm	4	0
1962	31.6 °C19 August 1962	2.3 °C28 January 1962	17.2 °C	2,624 mm	8	0
1961	30.9 °C16 July 1961	1.6 °C12 January 1961	17.7 °C	2,399 mm	9	0
1960	31.6 °C20 August 1960	-0.3 °C25 January 1960	17.4 °C	2,243 mm	7	1
1959	31.0 °C25 July 1959	0.7 °C18 January 1959	18.1 °C	2,989 mm	8	0
1958	30.5 °C4 August 1958	0.9 °C4 January 1958	17.6 °C	2,730 mm	4	0
1957	29.9 °C21 July 1957	1.1 °C13 January 1957	17.0 °C	2,431 mm	0	0
1956	33.6 °C4 August 1956	1.2 °C10 January 1956	17.2 °C	2,321 mm	17	0
1955	30.7 °C9 August 1955	1.0 °C12 February 1955	17.4 °C	2,304 mm	3	0
1954	31.0 °C10 August 1954	0.9 °C22 February 1954	17.3 °C	2,484 mm	4	0
1953	32.8 °C21 August 1953	1.2 °C2 February 1953	17.0 °C	2,352 mm	14	0
1952	31.3 °C27 August 1952	-0.3 °C6 February 1952	16.9 °C	2,424 mm	5	1
1951	30.6 °C31 July 1951	0.3 °C22 January 1951	16.8 °C	2,200 mm	4	0
1950	30.0 °C22 August 1950	0.6 °C7 January 1950	16.8 °C	2,682 mm	1	0
1949	29.8 °C21 August 1949	2.1 °C17 January 1949	16.4 °C	2,118 mm	0	0
1948	29.3 °C4 September 1948	1.3 °C2 March 1948	17.0 °C	1,970 mm	0	0
1947	30.9 °C2 September 1947	-0.7 °C16 February 1947	15.8 °C	1,440 mm	5	1
1946	31.2 °C14 July 1946	1.8 °C4 February 1946	16.8 °C	1,507 mm	2	0
1945	29.5 °C5 September 1945	-0.5 °C4 February 1945	16.3 °C	2,957 mm	0	1
1944	30.2 °C30 August 1944	0.5 °C16 February 1944	16.6 °C	1,845 mm	1	0
1943	31.2 °C15 August 1943	0.1 °C21 February 1943	16.1 °C	1,422 mm	2	0
1942	31.5 °C30 July 1942	-0.5 °C13 February 1942	16.5 °C	1,156 mm	8	2
1941	28.5 °C16 August 1941	-0.4 °C1 February 1941	16.5 °C	2,099 mm	0	1
1940	29.5 °C25 July 1940	-0.5 °C9 February 1940	15.8 °C	1,220 mm	0	3

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

20.5 °C

+1.1 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

26 d/yr

+18

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

2062 mm

-321 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	10.8 °C	+0.5 °C	49 mm	-39 mm
Feb	9.4 °C	-1.3 °C	42 mm	-65 mm
Mar	15.1 °C	+1.4 °C	152 mm	-7 mm
Apr	18.7 °C	+0.8 °C	153 mm	-44 mm
May	21.3 °C	+0.1 °C	389 mm	+154 mm
Jun	25.9 °C	+2.0 °C	211 mm	-129 mm
Jul	29.1 °C	+1.7 °C	169 mm	-94 mm
Aug	29.9 °C	+1.4 °C	79 mm	-153 mm
Sep	28.5 °C	+2.2 °C	209 mm	-76 mm
Oct	23.7 °C	+1.6 °C	381 mm	+140 mm
Nov	18.2 °C	+0.5 °C	112 mm	-36 mm
Dec	14.3 °C	+1.5 °C	117 mm	+27 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

31.7 °C

6 Jul 2025

Coldest day

0.7 °C

8 Feb 2025

Wettest day

75.7 mm

31 Oct 2025

Windiest day

46.2 km/h

15 Mar 2025

Strongest gust

85.3 km/h

31 Oct 2025

Hottest feels-like

39.5 °C

3 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

-8.1 °C

8 Feb 2025

Sunniest day

14.0 h

4 Jun 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Kushimoto?

Kushimoto has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 17.3 °C and it receives 2,383 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Kushimoto?

The hottest day measured in Kushimoto between 1940 and 2025 was 18 August 2020, reaching 34.2 °C.

What is the coldest day in Kushimoto?

The coldest day measured in Kushimoto between 1940 and 2025 was 26 February 1981, at -2.3 °C.

Does it snow in Kushimoto?

Almost never: Kushimoto sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Kushimoto warmed?

Yes: Kushimoto warmed by +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Kushimoto?

The wettest day measured in Kushimoto between 1940 and 2025 was 31 August 1979, with 277 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Kushimoto?

The windiest day measured in Kushimoto between 1940 and 2025 was 26 September 1959, with winds reaching 117.1 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Kushimoto?

The warmest month in Kushimoto is August (26.8 °C on average); the coldest is January (8.0 °C).

How much does it rain in Kushimoto?

Kushimoto receives on average 2,383 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 159 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Kushimoto?

Kushimoto gets on average 8.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,249 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Kushimoto?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Kushimoto between 1940 and 2025 was 21 February 1953, with 4.6 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Kushimoto?

Yes: Kushimoto has on average 119 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Kushimoto?

In Kushimoto, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 41.0 °C on 17 August 2020, and the lowest was -10.6 °C on 26 February 1981.

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