Weather in Fukuoka, in 5 minutes to understand

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Today’s topic is ‘Weather in Fukuoka city’.

In this article, I would like to introduce climate of Fukuoka simply, with itemized style. You might learn weather in Fukuoka with 5 minutes of reading.

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Weather Conditions

Fukuoka is the largest city in ‘Kyushu’ area. There is ‘Hakata’ station as terminal of Shinkansen. Please kindly refer to the number of days in each weather conditions, in average, based on statistics of past 30 years by JMA, as of 2020.

• Sunny day (sunshine ratio more than 40%)
  • 188.9 days in a year

• Rainy day (Rain more than 1mm)
  • 111.3 days in a year

• Snowing day (Snow/Rain can be duplicated)
  • 17.1 days in a year (Nov-Mar)

• Snowfall Record
  • In a day : 17 cm (1968/2/20)
  • Total: 30 cm (1917/12/30)

• Rainy Season
  • Start : Around 5th. June
  • End : Around 19th. July

• Typhoon (approaching to 300 km)
  • 3.2 times in a year (Jun-Oct)

**JMA = Governmental office, Japan Meteorological Agency

Temperature

Fukuoka is basically warm, however in winter, cold windows coming from north. For your easy understanding, I would like to summarize temperature in Fukuoka city, based on statistics of JMA, as follows.

• High temperature
  • Above 30℃ : 57.1 days in a year (May-Oct)
  • Above 35℃ : 5.5 days in a year (Jul-Sep)

• Low temperature
  • Below 0℃ : 4.3 days in a year (Dec-Mar)

• Record (Day High)
  • + 38.3 ℃ (2018/7/20)
  • – 1.3 ℃ (1977/2/16)

• Record (Day Low)
  • + 30.5 ℃ (2018/8/22)
  • – 8.2 ℃ (1919/2/5)

• Monthly average
  • High : + 9.9 ℃ (Jan) / + 32.1 ℃ (Aug)
  • Low : + 3.5 ℃ (Jan) / + 25.0 ℃ (Aug)
  • Ave : + 6.6 ℃ (Jan) / + 28.1 ℃ (Aug)

Daytime activities

Fukuoka city is located at lat 33° 36 N at long 130E. To enjoy various activities outside in Fukuoka, length of daytime is very important factor. For the convenience of visitors, I would like to summarize it as follows:

• Summer Solstice
  • Sunrise : around 05:09
  • Sunset : around 19:32
  • Daytime : around 14h30min

• Winter Solstice
  • Sunrise : around 07:19
  • Sunset : around 17:14
  • Daytime : around 9h55min

• Spring Equinox
  • Sunrise : around 06:22
  • Sunset : around 18:30

• Autumn Equinox
  • Sunrise : around 06:06
  • Sunset : around 18:15

** Data by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Biological information

Fukuoka is a city with rich culture and beautiful scenery in each season. Following biological data is based on observation by JMA. Please refer it as benchmarks to find season in Fukuoka.

• Sakura (Winter >> Spring)
  • Opening
    • Average : 23rd. March
    • Earliest : 13th. March (2013)
    • Latest : 6th. April (1962)
  • Full blossom
    • Average : 1st. April
    • Earliest : 22nd. March (2013)
    • Latest : 10th. April (1984)

• Cicada shrills (Rainy season >> Summer)
  • First shrills of brown cicada
    • Average : 8th. July
    • Earliest : 23rd. June (1989)
    • Latest : 26th. July (1956)

• Japanese silver grass (Summer >> Autumn)
  • Opening
    • Average : 23rd. September
    • Earliest : 28th. August (1998)
    • Latest : 6th. October (1994)

• Ginkgo tree (Autumn >> Winter)
  • Fallen leaves
    • Average : 28th. November
    • Earliest : 2nd. November (1973)
    • Latest : 16th. December (2019)

Postscript

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Fukuoka is nice place to walk around and eating foods outside at stand, called ‘Yatai’. I hope this article could assist you to learn climate in Fukuoka, to enjoy staying there.

In the end, thank you very much for your reading and see you again !