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Kyoto · 1,463,723 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 03:53

Overcast
14°
Overcast
Feels like 14°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
6 km/h
Humidity
84 %
Pressure
1021 hPa
Clouds
99 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:15 Set 17:05 Day 10 h 49 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Overcast
Overcast
15°14°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ E 5 km/h
Humidity 72 %
💧 0.1 mm
Morning
Light rain
Light rain
14°
Feels like 14°
Wind ↑ SSE 4 km/h
Gusts 11 km/h
Humidity 91 %
💧 2.6 mm
Afternoon
Rain
Rain
17°16°
Feels like 17°
Wind ↑ SE 4 km/h
Humidity 90 %
💧 13.6 mm
Evening
Light rain
Light rain
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ SSE 1 km/h
Humidity 95 %
💧 4.6 mm
09:00
Light rain
14°
1.4mm
E 4
12:00
Light rain
16°
1.5mm
SE 3
15:00
Rain
17°
12.1mm
SE 4
18:00
Light rain
15°
2.2mm
SSE 1
21:00
Light rain
15°
2.4mm
E 1
00:00
Partly cloudy
15°
0.1mm
NW 4
03:00
Rain showers
14°
0.4mm
NW 6
06:00
Clear sky
13°
NW 8

Kyoto 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)
8°12°15°19°22°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed18°12°Thu 29 Oct: max 15° · min 14° · normal 13.8°Fri 30 Oct: max 17° · min 13° · normal 13.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 20° · min 11° · normal 13.4°Sun 1 Nov: max 19° · min 13° · normal 13.4°Mon 2 Nov: max 14° · min 12° · normal 13.2°Tue 3 Nov: max 19° · min 10° · normal 13.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 18° · min 12° · normal 12.8°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri9°16°22°20°10°012
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Kyoto climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 0 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 24 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,700 mm of rain — more than 82% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

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

From 14 h 30 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 48 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 18 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (21 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan7 °C0 °C75 mm
Feb8 °C1 °C81 mm
Mar12 °C3 °C125 mm
Apr17 °C8 °C138 mm
May23 °C14 °C156 mm
Jun26 °C18 °C214 mm
Jul30 °C22 °C241 mm
Aug31 °C23 °C149 mm
Sep27 °C20 °C198 mm
Oct21 °C13 °C163 mm
Nov16 °C8 °C85 mm
Dec10 °C2 °C73 mm
Whole year19 °C11 °C1,700 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 35.02° N, 135.75° 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 Kyoto: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.55µg/m³
PM107µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kyoto

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

Moon over Kyoto

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 15:17 Set 05:43
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 Kyoto

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

Kyoto weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kyoto, Kyoto: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 14 °C (feels like 14 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 13 °C to 17 °C and around 20 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.

Kyoto weather data for developers

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