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Kagoshima · 595,049 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 04:40

Light rain
18°
Light rain
Feels like 18°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
5 km/h
Humidity
92 %
Pressure
1019 hPa
Clouds
80 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:31 Set 17:31 Day 10 h 59 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Rain
Rain
20°
Feels like 25°
Wind ↑ S 8 km/h
Gusts 26 km/h
Humidity 79 %
💧 8.0 mm
Morning
Light rain
Light rain
21°18°
Feels like 27°
Wind ↑ ESE 5 km/h
Humidity 87 %
💧 3.8 mm
Afternoon
Drizzle
Drizzle
23°
Feels like 29°
Wind ↑ WNW 13 km/h
Gusts 25 km/h
Humidity 73 %
💧 0.3 mm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
20°19°
Feels like 20°
Wind ↑ NW 12 km/h
Gusts 28 km/h
Humidity 79 %
💧 1.3 mm
09:00
Rain showers
21°
1.9mm
ESE 1
12:00
Partly cloudy
23°
0.1mm
WNW 7
15:00
Drizzle
23°
0.2mm
WNW 13
18:00
Drizzle
19°
0.6mm
NW 12
21:00
Rain showers
20°
0.7mm
NW 11
00:00
Clear sky
16°
NW 8
03:00
Clear sky
18°
NNW 11
06:00
Clear sky
15°
NW 10

Kagoshima forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
11°15°19°22°26°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed22°16°Thu 29 Oct: max 21° · min 18° · normal 18.1°Fri 30 Oct: max 23° · min 15° · normal 18.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 23° · min 13° · normal 17.8°Sun 1 Nov: max 24° · min 17° · normal 17.8°Mon 2 Nov: max 23° · min 13° · normal 17.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 23° · min 15° · normal 17.4°Wed 4 Nov: max 22° · min 16° · normal 17.2°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri12°19°25°24°13°08
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Kagoshima climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 2,260 mm of rain — more than 91% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 5 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 20 °C.

Typical highs of 30 °C or more are reached in August only, at 31 °C.

From 14 h 12 min of daylight in late June to 10 h 05 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 23 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (25 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan12 °C5 °C90 mm
Feb13 °C6 °C108 mm
Mar16 °C9 °C157 mm
Apr20 °C13 °C183 mm
May24 °C17 °C199 mm
Jun26 °C21 °C503 mm
Jul30 °C25 °C310 mm
Aug31 °C25 °C180 mm
Sep29 °C23 °C210 mm
Oct25 °C18 °C115 mm
Nov20 °C13 °C113 mm
Dec14 °C7 °C87 mm
Whole year22 °C15 °C2,260 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 31.57° N, 130.55° 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 Kagoshima: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.58µg/m³
PM1010µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kagoshima

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kagoshima, 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 Kagoshima yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Kagoshima

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 15:49 Set 05:53
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 Kagoshima

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

Kagoshima weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kagoshima, Kagoshima: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “light rain”, it is 18 °C (feels like 18 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 15 °C to 23 °C and around 4 mm of rain. 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.

Kagoshima weather data for developers

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