Tottori weather by month & the best time to visit
🇯🇵 Japan · coastal city break · humid subtropical climate
The best time to visit Tottori is May — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 64/100), with August and June close behind. Tottori averages about 1,544 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 22°C / 72°F and roughly 126 mm of rain in May.
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- Sun hours / year
- 1,544
- Sunniest month
- May
- Peak score
- 64/100
- Rain / year
- 1,804 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈11 cm
- Midday UV at peak
- 7 (high)
- Sea at warmest
- 29°C / 84°F
- Population
- 530k
- Elevation
- 12 m
When is the best time to visit Tottori?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Tottori is May, then August and June. The dullest month is January (0/100, 154 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Tottori?
Tottori isn't a sunny place by world standards: about 1,544 hours of sunshine a year. 64 Sunshine Score points separate May (64) from January (0), so the month you pick matters. It ranks #64 of 79 destinations in Japan for annual sunshine, below the national median of 1,773 hours. The year's 1,804 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 | 7° / 45°F | 3° / 37°F | 154 mm | 2 | 15° / 59°F |
| February | 0 | 8° / 46°F | 3° / 37°F | 121 mm | 2 | 13° / 55°F |
| March | 16 | 11° / 52°F | 5° / 41°F | 128 mm | 4 | 12° / 54°F |
| April | 50 | 17° / 63°F | 9° / 48°F | 112 mm | 5 | 15° / 59°F |
| May | 64 | 22° / 72°F | 14° / 57°F | 126 mm | 6 | 19° / 66°F |
| June | 60 | 25° / 77°F | 19° / 66°F | 159 mm | 6 | 23° / 73°F |
| July | 60 | 29° / 84°F | 23° / 73°F | 208 mm | 6 | 26° / 79°F |
| August | 62 | 30° / 86°F | 24° / 75°F | 139 mm | 7 | 29° / 84°F |
| September | 60 | 26° / 79°F | 21° / 70°F | 214 mm | 5 | 28° / 82°F |
| October | 60 | 21° / 70°F | 15° / 59°F | 153 mm | 4 | 23° / 73°F |
| November | 44 | 16° / 61°F | 10° / 50°F | 120 mm | 2 | 20° / 68°F |
| December | 10 | 10° / 50°F | 6° / 43°F | 170 mm | 1 | 17° / 63°F |
Sea temperature in Tottori by month
The sea off Tottori is warmest in August at around 29°C / 84°F, and coolest in March at 12°C / 54°F. The water sits at a comfortable 21°C or warmer roughly 5 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
- Yonago Japan · 84 km · best in May · 1,515 h sun/yr
- Okayama Japan · 90 km · best in Aug · 1,914 h sun/yr
- Izumo Japan · 116 km · best in May · 1,647 h sun/yr
- Kobe Japan · 139 km · best in May · 1,831 h sun/yr
- Takamatsu Japan · 147 km · best in May · 1,982 h sun/yr
- Osaka Japan · 157 km · best in May · 1,831 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Toyooka Japan · 56 km · 1,544 h sun/yr · best in May
- Okinoshima Japan · 105 km · 1,674 h sun/yr · best in Aug
Head-to-head
How Tottori compares month by month: Tottori vs Okayama · Tottori vs Izumo · Tottori vs Yonago · all comparisons
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