Home › Japan › Osaka › Osaka

Osaka weather

Osaka · 2,753,862 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:56

Overcast
16°
Overcast
Feels like 16°C
Wind
8 km/h
Gusts
8 km/h
Humidity
79 %
Pressure
1020 hPa
Clouds
100 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:16 Set 17:07 Day 10 h 50 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Overcast
Overcast
17°16°
Feels like 17°
Wind ↑ E 8 km/h
Humidity 58 %
💧 0.1 mm
Morning
Light rain
Light rain
16°14°
Feels like 16°
Wind ↑ ESE 8 km/h
Gusts 14 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 5.9 mm
Afternoon
Rain
Rain
19°16°
Feels like 19°
Wind ↑ SE 10 km/h
Gusts 27 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 14.7 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
18°17°
Feels like 18°
Wind ↑ WSW 6 km/h
Humidity 87 %
💧 6.9 mm
09:00
Rain showers
16°
3.0mm
ENE 6
12:00
Light rain
16°
4.4mm
SE 10
15:00
Rain
19°
10.3mm
SE 2
18:00
Rain showers
18°
2.8mm
WSW 6
21:00
Rain showers
17°
4.1mm
ESE 1
00:00
Clear sky
17°
0.1mm
W 6
03:00
Clear sky
16°
0.1mm
NW 5
06:00
Rain showers
15°
0.6mm
NW 7

Osaka 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)
10°14°17°21°24°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed19°13°Thu 29 Oct: max 19° · min 14° · normal 15.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 19° · min 15° · normal 15.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 22° · min 13° · normal 15.1°Sun 1 Nov: max 20° · min 14° · normal 15.1°Mon 2 Nov: max 17° · min 13° · normal 14.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 20° · min 12° · normal 14.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 19° · min 13° · normal 14.5°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri10°17°23°22°12°018
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Osaka climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 33 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 2 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 24 °C.

Swimmers find the warmest sea in August (26 °C) and the coolest in February (14 °C).

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in July and August; the typical peak is 33 °C in August.

A normal year brings roughly 1,500 mm of rain — more than 75% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 19 °C, 4 °C cooler than a normal October (23 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfallSea
Jan8 °C2 °C64 mm15 °C
Feb10 °C3 °C73 mm14 °C
Mar13 °C5 °C113 mm15 °C
Apr19 °C10 °C122 mm16 °C
May24 °C16 °C141 mm18 °C
Jun27 °C20 °C202 mm21 °C
Jul31 °C24 °C185 mm24 °C
Aug33 °C25 °C119 mm27 °C
Sep29 °C21 °C175 mm26 °C
Oct23 °C15 °C156 mm23 °C
Nov17 °C9 °C83 mm20 °C
Dec12 °C5 °C69 mm17 °C
Whole year20 °C13 °C1,500 mm20 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 34.66° N, 135.43° 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 Osaka: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.512µg/m³
PM1013µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Osaka

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

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

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

Moon over Osaka

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 15:19 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.

Sea and tides near Osaka

Tide station used: Osaka

🌊 Sea surface
23.4 °C
satellite, 30/10
Sea state
Rippled
waves 0.2 m
Period
2 s
Swell
0.1 m
ThuThu 29/10
High tide 09:11 2.0 m
Low tide 14:48 1.5 m
High tide 20:26 2.0 m
TodayFri 30/10
Low tide 03:15 0.5 m
High tide 10:15 1.9 m
Low tide 15:31 1.6 m
High tide 20:56 1.9 m
TomorrowSat 31/10
Low tide 04:08 0.6 m
High tide 13:21 1.8 m
SunSun 01/11
Low tide 05:12 0.7 m
High tide 14:35 1.8 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Osaka

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

Osaka weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Osaka, Osaka: 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 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.

Expected range today: 15 °C to 19 °C and around 25 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, plus the tide times for Osaka.

Osaka weather data for developers

Use the Osaka forecast in your own website or app: one JSON call returns weather, air quality, tides and sun and moon times. The free key needs no card.

Create a free key

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