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Kumamoto · 738,907 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 04:01

Rain
19°
Rain
Feels like 19°C
Wind
12 km/h
Gusts
38 km/h
Humidity
85 %
Pressure
1019 hPa
Clouds
79 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:33 Set 17:29 Day 10 h 55 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Rain
Rain
21°19°
Feels like 26°
Wind ↑ SSW 22 km/h
Gusts 38 km/h
Humidity 76 %
💧 8.5 mm
Morning
Drizzle
Drizzle
20°19°
Feels like 20°
Wind ↑ SSW 27 km/h
Gusts 43 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 0.9 mm
Afternoon
Rain
Rain
21°20°
Feels like 26°
Wind ↑ W 8 km/h
Humidity 73 %
💧 11.4 mm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
20°19°
Feels like 24°
Wind ↑ WNW 14 km/h
Humidity 74 %
💧 1.2 mm
09:00
Drizzle
19°
0.6mm
SSW 12
12:00
Rain
20°
5.0mm
W 8
15:00
Rain
21°
6.4mm
W 8
18:00
Rain showers
20°
0.6mm
WNW 14
21:00
Rain showers
19°
0.6mm
WNW 9
00:00
Clear sky
18°
NW 13
03:00
Clear sky
18°
WNW 7
06:00
Clear sky
18°
NW 15

Kumamoto forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.2° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
14°17°19°22°24°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed19°16°Thu 29 Oct: max 21° · min 19° · normal 17.1°Fri 30 Oct: max 21° · min 18° · normal 16.9°Sat 31 Oct: max 22° · min 16° · normal 16.8°Sun 1 Nov: max 22° · min 17° · normal 16.8°Mon 2 Nov: max 21° · min 16° · normal 16.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 20° · min 16° · normal 16.4°Wed 4 Nov: max 19° · min 16° · normal 16.3°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri14°19°24°22°16°07
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Kumamoto climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 1,980 mm of rain — more than 88% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 3 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 21 °C.

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

From 14 h 18 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 59 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 21 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (23 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan9 °C3 °C87 mm
Feb10 °C5 °C106 mm
Mar13 °C7 °C144 mm
Apr18 °C11 °C159 mm
May23 °C16 °C178 mm
Jun25 °C20 °C415 mm
Jul28 °C23 °C304 mm
Aug30 °C24 °C143 mm
Sep27 °C21 °C164 mm
Oct23 °C15 °C99 mm
Nov17 °C10 °C95 mm
Dec11 °C5 °C88 mm
Whole year20 °C13 °C1,980 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 32.75° N, 130.56° 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 Kumamoto: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.59µg/m³
PM1011µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kumamoto

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

Moon over Kumamoto

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 15:46 Set 05:56
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 Kumamoto

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

Kumamoto weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kumamoto, Kumamoto: 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 19 °C (feels like 19 °C) and the wind blows at 12 km/h.

Expected range today: 18 °C to 21 °C and around 13 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.

Kumamoto weather data for developers

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