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Akita · 307,672 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 04:10

Rain
15°
Rain
Feels like 15°C
Wind
17 km/h
Gusts
22 km/h
Humidity
77 %
Pressure
1018 hPa
Clouds
100 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:05 Set 16:41 Day 10 h 35 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Rain
Rain
15°13°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ SE 28 km/h
Gusts 35 km/h
Humidity 77 %
💧 6.1 mm
Morning
Rain
Rain
15°14°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ S 22 km/h
Gusts 42 km/h
Humidity 84 %
💧 25.3 mm
Afternoon
Rain
Rain
18°16°
Feels like 18°
Wind ↑ SW 42 km/h
Gusts 49 km/h
Humidity 76 %
💧 9.2 mm
Evening
Rain
Rain
17°16°
Feels like 17°
Wind ↑ S 25 km/h
Gusts 35 km/h
Humidity 80 %
💧 17.1 mm
09:00
Rain
15°
18.9mm
S 19
12:00
Light rain
18°
2.7mm
SW 42
15:00
Rain
16°
6.5mm
SSW 19
18:00
Light rain
17°
4.2mm
SSW 25
21:00
Rain
16°
12.9mm
S 12
00:00
Rain
16°
5.5mm
S 22
03:00
Rain
15°
13.3mm
WSW 6
06:00
Rain showers
16°
3.6mm
W 17

Akita forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.7° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
9°12°15°17°20°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed15°11°Thu 29 Oct: max 15° · min 13° · normal 12.3°Fri 30 Oct: max 18° · min 15° · normal 12.1°Sat 31 Oct: max 17° · min 11° · normal 11.9°Sun 1 Nov: max 13° · min 11° · normal 11.9°Mon 2 Nov: max 13° · min 12° · normal 11.7°Tue 3 Nov: max 13° · min 12° · normal 11.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 15° · min 11° · normal 11.2°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri9°14°19°18°11°019
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Akita climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −3 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 25 °C.

Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −3 °C in January.

A normal year brings roughly 1,960 mm of rain — more than 87% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

From 14 h 59 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 21 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (17 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan1 °C−3 °C131 mm
Feb3 °C−3 °C114 mm
Mar6 °C0 °C130 mm
Apr13 °C6 °C125 mm
May18 °C11 °C140 mm
Jun22 °C15 °C153 mm
Jul25 °C20 °C256 mm
Aug27 °C21 °C229 mm
Sep24 °C17 °C190 mm
Oct17 °C11 °C174 mm
Nov11 °C5 °C164 mm
Dec5 °C−1 °C157 mm
Whole year14 °C8 °C1,960 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 39.75° N, 140.07° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Akita: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.54µg/m³
PM107µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Akita

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Akita, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Akita yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Akita

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 14:42 Set 05:42
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon
Wed 11/11 3%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Tokyo); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Akita

Curious about the weather in Akita on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Akita weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Akita, Akita: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain”, it is 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 17 km/h.

Expected range today: 15 °C to 18 °C and around 68 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations