Toyama weather by month & the best time to visit
🇯🇵 Japan · coastal city break · humid subtropical climate
The best time to visit Toyama is May — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 66/100), with June and July close behind. Toyama averages about 1,590 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 23°C / 73°F and roughly 118 mm of rain in May.
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- Sun hours / year
- 1,590
- Sunniest month
- May
- Peak score
- 66/100
- Rain / year
- 2,012 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈2.2 m
- Midday UV at peak
- 6 (high)
- Sea at warmest
- 29°C / 84°F
- Population
- 416k
- Elevation
- 22 m
When is the best time to visit Toyama?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Toyama is May, then June and July. The dullest month is January (0/100, 189 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Toyama?
Toyama isn't a sunny place by world standards: about 1,590 hours of sunshine a year. 66 Sunshine Score points separate May (66) from January (0), so the month you pick matters. It ranks #60 of 79 destinations in Japan for annual sunshine, below the national median of 1,773 hours. The year's 2,012 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 | 5° / 41°F | 0° / 32°F | 189 mm | 1 | 13° / 55°F |
| February | 0 | 6° / 43°F | 0° / 32°F | 125 mm | 2 | 12° / 54°F |
| March | 11 | 10° / 50°F | 3° / 37°F | 134 mm | 3 | 10° / 50°F |
| April | 48 | 17° / 63°F | 8° / 46°F | 126 mm | 4 | 13° / 55°F |
| May | 66 | 23° / 73°F | 13° / 55°F | 118 mm | 5 | 16° / 61°F |
| June | 60 | 27° / 81°F | 18° / 64°F | 154 mm | 5 | 22° / 72°F |
| July | 60 | 30° / 86°F | 23° / 73°F | 242 mm | 6 | 25° / 77°F |
| August | 60 | 31° / 88°F | 24° / 75°F | 171 mm | 6 | 29° / 84°F |
| September | 60 | 27° / 81°F | 20° / 68°F | 200 mm | 5 | 29° / 84°F |
| October | 60 | 21° / 70°F | 13° / 55°F | 162 mm | 4 | 24° / 75°F |
| November | 35 | 15° / 59°F | 8° / 46°F | 164 mm | 2 | 19° / 66°F |
| December | 0 | 8° / 46°F | 3° / 37°F | 227 mm | 1 | 16° / 61°F |
Sea temperature in Toyama by month
The sea off Toyama is warmest in August at around 29°C / 84°F, and coolest in March at 10°C / 50°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
- Kanazawa Japan · 75 km · best in Jun · 1,565 h sun/yr
- Nagoya Japan · 202 km · best in May · 1,906 h sun/yr
- Niigata Japan · 224 km · best in May · 1,480 h sun/yr
- Shizuoka Japan · 225 km · best in May · 2,035 h sun/yr
- Tokyo Japan · 264 km · best in Aug · 1,958 h sun/yr
- Kobe Japan · 286 km · best in May · 1,831 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Wajima Japan · 74 km · 1,676 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Matsumoto Japan · 85 km · 1,590 h sun/yr · best in May
- Sado Japan · 191 km · 1,580 h sun/yr · best in Jun
Head-to-head
How Toyama compares month by month: Toyama vs Tokyo · Toyama vs Nagoya · Toyama vs Shizuoka · Toyama vs Niigata · all comparisons
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