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This is shinta_in_japan.
Today’s topic is ‘Weather in Yokohama city’.
In this article, I would like to introduce climate of Yokohama simply, with itemized style. You might learn weather in Yokohama with 5 minutes of reading.
Have fun !
Weather Conditions
Yokohama is a city on the sea, Tokyo bay. It’s basically mild climate. Please kindly refer to the number of days in Yokohama 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%)
- 205.1 days in a year
- Rainy day (Rain more than 1mm)
- 105.3 days in a year
- Snowing day (Snow/Rain can be duplicated)
- 19.9 days in a year (Dec-Apr)
- Snowfall Record
- In a day : 30 cm (1954/1/24)
- Total: 45 cm (1945/2/26)
- Rainy Season
- Start : Around 8th. June
- End : Around 21st. July
- Typhoon (approaching to 300 km)
- 3.1 times in a year (Jun-Oct)
**JMA = Governmental office, Japan Meteorological Agency
Temperature
In Yokohama, winter is not so severe. However, cold dry strong wind is often coming from mountains. For your easy understanding, I would like to summarize temperature in Yokohama city, based on statistics of JMA, as follows.
- High temperature
- Above 30℃ : 43.3 days in a year (May-Oct)
- Above 35℃ : 1.2 days in a year (Jul-Sep)
- Low temperature
- Below 0℃ : 7.9 days in a year (Dec-Mar)
- Record (Day High)
- + 37.4 ℃ (2016/8/9)
- – 1.1 ℃ (1967/2/12)
- Record (Day Low)
- + 28.4 ℃ (2013/8/11)
- – 8.2 ℃ (1927/1/24)
- Monthly average
- High : + 9.9 ℃ (Jan) / + 30.6 ℃ (Aug)
- Low : + 2.3 ℃ (Jan) / + 24.0 ℃ (Aug)
- Ave : + 5.9 ℃ (Jan) / + 26.7 ℃ (Aug)
Daytime activities
Yokohama city is located at lat 35° 26 N at long 139E. To enjoy various activities outside in Yokohama, length of daytime is very important factor. For the convenience of visitors, I would like to summarize it as follows:
- Summer Solstice
- Sunrise : around 04:26
- Sunset : around 19:00
- Daytime : around 14h30min
- Winter Solstice
- Sunrise : around 06:47
- Sunset : around 16:32
- Daytime : around 9h45min
- Spring Equinox
- Sunrise : around 05:45
- Sunset : around 17:53
- Autumn Equinox
- Sunrise : around 05:29
- Sunset : around 17:38
** Data by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Biological information
Yokohama 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 Kobe
- Sakura (Winter >> Spring)
- Opening
- Average : 26th. March
- Earliest : 15th. March (2002)
- Latest : 10th. April (1984)
- Full blossom
- Average : 3rd. April
- Earliest : 22nd. March (2013)
- Latest : 15th. April (1984)
- Opening
- Cicada shrills (Rainy season >> Summer)
- First shrills of brown cicada
- Average : 25th. July
- Earliest : 14th. July (2006)
- Latest : 8th. August (1988)
- First shrills of brown cicada
- Japanese silver grass (Summer >> Autumn)
- Opening
- Average : 22nd. September
- Earliest : 21st. August (2013)
- Latest : 9th. October (1995)
- Opening
- Ginkgo tree (Autumn >> Winter)
- Fallen leaves
- Average : 9th. December
- Earliest : 18th. November (1969)
- Latest : 24th. December (2011)
- Fallen leaves
Postscript
That’s all today.
How was the content today ?
I live in Yokohama actually, and I think that Yokohama is nice to live, a lot of sunny days, not with severe winter. I hope this article could assist you to learn climate in Yokohama, to enjoy staying there.
In the end, thank you very much for your reading and see you again !
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