Kitami weather by month & the best time to visit
🇯🇵 Japan · seaside town · continental climate
The best time to visit Kitami is July — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 70/100), with September and August close behind. Kitami averages about 1,825 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 21°C / 70°F and roughly 103 mm of rain in July.
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- Sun hours / year
- 1,825
- Sunniest month
- July
- Peak score
- 70/100
- Rain / year
- 937 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈2.1 m
- Midday UV at peak
- 5 (moderate)
- Sea at warmest
- 21°C / 70°F
- Population
- 119k
- Elevation
- 32 m
When is the best time to visit Kitami?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Kitami is July, then September and August. The dullest month is January (0/100, 51 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Kitami?
Kitami gets a moderate 1,825 hours of sunshine a year. 70 Sunshine Score points separate July (70) from January (0), so the month you pick matters. It ranks #30 of 79 destinations in Japan for annual sunshine, above the national median of 1,773 hours. The year's 937 mm of rain spreads fairly evenly across the months, with no pronounced dry season.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV | Sea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | -3° / 27°F | -8° / 18°F | 51 mm | 1 | -1° / 30°F |
| February | 0 | -3° / 27°F | -10° / 14°F | 40 mm | 2 | -1° / 30°F |
| March | 0 | 1° / 34°F | -5° / 23°F | 49 mm | 2 | -1° / 30°F |
| April | 0 | 7° / 45°F | 0° / 32°F | 54 mm | 3 | 3° / 37°F |
| May | 31 | 13° / 55°F | 5° / 41°F | 76 mm | 4 | 7° / 45°F |
| June | 61 | 18° / 64°F | 10° / 50°F | 86 mm | 5 | 13° / 55°F |
| July | 70 | 21° / 70°F | 15° / 59°F | 103 mm | 5 | 18° / 64°F |
| August | 65 | 23° / 73°F | 17° / 63°F | 134 mm | 5 | 21° / 70°F |
| September | 69 | 20° / 68°F | 14° / 57°F | 109 mm | 4 | 21° / 70°F |
| October | 36 | 14° / 57°F | 8° / 46°F | 98 mm | 3 | 15° / 59°F |
| November | 0 | 6° / 43°F | 1° / 34°F | 68 mm | 1 | 8° / 46°F |
| December | 0 | 0° / 32°F | -5° / 23°F | 69 mm | 1 | 2° / 36°F |
Sea temperature in Kitami by month
The sea off Kitami is warmest in August at around 21°C / 70°F, and coolest in January at -1°C / 30°F. The water sits at a comfortable 21°C or warmer roughly 2 months a year. Month-by-month sea-surface temperatures are in the Sea column of the table above.
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Kushiro Japan · 93 km · best in Jul · 1,827 h sun/yr
- Asahikawa Japan · 140 km · best in Jun · 1,633 h sun/yr
- Obihiro Japan · 149 km · best in Jul · 1,878 h sun/yr
- Sapporo Japan · 235 km · best in Jun · 1,696 h sun/yr
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russia · 353 km · best in Jul · 1,599 h sun/yr
- Hakodate Japan · 360 km · best in Jun · 1,408 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Nakashibetsu Japan · 72 km · 1,826 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Monbetsu Japan · 77 km · 1,598 h sun/yr · best in Sep
- Yuzhno-Kurilsk Russia · 122 km · 1,695 h sun/yr · best in Aug
Head-to-head
How Kitami compares month by month: Kitami vs Asahikawa · Kitami vs Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk · Kitami vs Kushiro · Kitami vs Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky · all comparisons
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